My View on the Belt and Road Initiative

2024 is the 11th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative.

The circle of friends of the Belt and Road Initiative is getting
bigger and bigger, with happy stories and moving scenes
happening all over the world. During these ten years, many
foreign youth like me in the "Belt and Road" countries have
come to China to study and live. We are the beneficiaries, the
witnesses and the messengers of the "Belt and Road" Initiative.
"The Belt and Road", the stars twinkle, we are not alone,
harmonious symbiosis... "One Belt, One Road", a long journey,
heart-to-heart, the road to happiness... ", this exciting theme
song sings the voice of the people of our country. Since the
establishment of the Belt and Road Initiative, China has signed
inter-governmental scientific and technological cooperation
agreements with 81 co-building countries, established
intellectual property cooperation relations with more than 50 co-
building countries, and supported more than 1,000 Chinese and
foreign scientific and technological personnel to carry out joint
research projects. In addition, facing to Africa, ASIAN, Latin
America and other places, China has also built nine
transnational technology transfer centers, held more than 300
technology exchange and docking activities, and continued to
help build a joint national technology exchange and exchange,
"Belt and Road" science and technology innovation cooperation
has achieved a batch of tangible results. My country The United
Republic of Tanzania belongs to the tropical climate, sunshine is
sufficient, the land is flat and fertile, suitable for planting rice,
but the agriculture sector especially production of rice was not
giving much emphasize so as to be among the major cash crops
in Tanzania, the rice yield was low, the national average rice
yield per hectare was less than 3 tons. Since Chinese experts
come to Tanzania, they have taught our farmers how to engage
in Agro- Economy by introducing "Chongqing's" Q-You hybrid
rice which land in Africa in 2015 and the using of modern
technology in rice production such as seedlings, transplant
seedlings, manage fertilizer and water, and control diseases and
insect pests. the " Q-You "hybrid rice planted in a demonstration
field in the agricultural sector set a record for Tanzania's high
yield of 13 tons per hectare. With the adoption of Chinese
technology, rice production has improve. marked with a
maximum yield of 10 tons per hectare, more than quadrupling
since before. With the help of Chinese experts, many farmers in
Tanzania have improve their living standards and manage to
make Tanzania as one among the leading rice producer in East
Africa region.
Crossing the mountains and the sea, along the Silk Road,
rice flowers bloom. It is true that all countries develop together,
and everyone is truly rich together. China has always been
looking at global common development, so that every piece of
land gives birth to hope. In the field of agriculture, China has
actively shared development experience and technology with
African countries, explored the mode of agricultural innovation
and modernization, and helped Africa alleviate the food crisis.
China is committed to popularizing planting techniques such as
hybrid rice and hybrid breeding to train local agricultural talents.
There are many countries like Tanzania that benefit from
Chinese technology. In Burundi, a Chinese agricultural expert
group has spent several years raising local rice production from
an average of 3 tons per hectare to 10 tons to achieve leapfrog
development; in Madagascar, Chinese experts have developed
"high-yield, high-quality, multi-resistant" hybrid rice varieties
suitable for local demand, helping farmers achieve food self-
sufficiency and ending the history of imported rice; in Guinea-
Bissau, China's agricultural technology group helped local
farmers introduce and breed more than 30 rice varieties,
compiled a series of Chinese-Portuguese bilingual textbooks
such as" Key Points of Rice Planting Technology ", and trained
more than 22,000 people, bringing up a large number of local
talents. Through technical assistance, China has helped African
countries, including Tanzania, to expand the cultivation of food
crops, increase agricultural production and increase the added
value of agricultural products, and promote the development of
agricultural modernization in Africa.
In the field of ecological and environmental protection,
China and Tanzania have jointly carried out joint water
environmental surveys, formulated technical methods for water
environmental monitoring suitable for local development,
improved the level of water environmental protection hardware
facilities and scientific research personnel, and cooperated with
Nigerian researchers in combating desertification, bringing to
the African people the "Chinese Approach". In the field of
public health, around the goal of high standards for the
sustainable development of the people's livelihood, China has
worked closely with the co-building countries in scientific and
technological cooperation to inject "adhesives" into the people-
to-people connectivity. In Tanzania, the two sides have jointly
established a cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment center,
providing diagnostic equipment and training of local doctors.
The project team has now screened more than 12,000 women in
Tanzania for cervical cancer and operated on nearly 2,000
patients. In recent years, China has also invested in four mobile
clinics in Sierra Leone to carry out tests for common diseases. In
addition to the traditional industries, based on the digital
construction needs of the co- building countries, the Silk Road
Conference on the Internet will continue to promote the
exchanges between China and foreign countries in the fields of
digital infrastructure, digital new technology applications,
digital economy, big data and cloud computing, and lead the
innovation cooperation in the emerging fields. Chinese
companies helped build Africa's first 5G commercial network
and 5G laboratory in South Africa, helping to build more than
half of Africa's wireless sites and high-speed mobile broadband
networks, serving more than 900 million Africans. In the field of
poverty eradication, the fungus from China has become the "rich
grass" of African people," a small grass reveals the love from
thousands of miles", the Chinese fungus technology is China's
successful practice of poverty reduction carried out in the global
sustainable development, for the vast number of African
countries to solve the problem of food and poverty, to achieve
the hope of sustainable development. At present, these "Chinese
grass" has landed in South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria,
Tanzania, Lesotho and other African countries, become the local
people’s happy grass". In Tanzania, some farmers specialize in
selling fresh and dried mushrooms, as well as deep-fried snacks
with mushroom powder and mushroom, etc. Some farmers
develop mushroom straw mushrooms to supply local hotels,
restaurants and markets, and make biochar by using waste
mushroom tanks; some farmers engage in the production of
mushroom bags, mushroom cultivation and related technical
training, and become the leaders of local poverty alleviation.
"Belt and Road" scientific and technological cooperation
benefits not only African countries, but also other countries
along the line. In Latin America, experts from China and Brazil
are working together to create a resilient local ecosystem by
breeding and releasing fish in Brazil's Paraná and Paranapanema
river basins. In Southeast Asia, the Chinese team is working
with partners from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand on free
screening and treatment of children's congenital heart disease, as
well as new technology promotion. In Thailand, China-Thailand
cooperation to build Thailand's 5G intelligent demonstration
plant, "5G +" industrial application innovation results.
The above scenes continue to play out all over the world.
From hybrid rice to green irrigation technology, from
agricultural demonstration centers to poverty reduction
demonstration villages, over the past decade, practical
cooperation in various fields has been deepened on the
mechanism platform of building the Belt and Road Initiative and
the China-Africa Cooperation Forum. China's technology
straddles mountains and seas, taking root and sprouting in
Africa, thousands of miles away, turning patches of fertile soil
into fertile fields, "small and beautiful" "beneficial and
practical" heart-winning projects closing the distance of heart
and heart. .