The Abu Qir Container Terminal project in Egypt completed the 600-meter dock shoreline and was officially opened for operation. Part of the branch tunnel project of Saudi Arabia's New Future City was completed and handed over. The first three office buildings of Egypt's new administrative capital central business district project started acceptance... Since the New Year... , China and Arab countries jointly build the "Belt and Road" cooperation projects, and good news has come one after another.In a period of global transformation characterized by frequent changes and turmoil, China and Afghanistan, as natural partners in jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, discuss, build and develop together, allowing the Belt and Road Initiative to bloom flowers of prosperity in the vast desert.Facing the future, China-Arab pragmatic cooperation is full of vitality and the high-quality "Belt and Road" joint construction has broad prospects.Weaving a dense cooperation network in multiple fields. 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative.This year, nearly 20 Middle Eastern countries attended the third "One Belt, One Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum at a high level. China and Arab countries' joint construction of the "Belt and Road" ushered in a new stage of higher quality and higher level development; this year , China and Jordan signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly promote the construction of the "Belt and Road". So far, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has achieved "full coverage" of all 22 Arab countries and the League of Arab States; in the first half of 2023, China-Arab trade The amount reached US$199.9 billion, and China’s new direct investment in Afghanistan increased by 7% year-on-year.
As of 2023, according to incomplete statistics, 4 Arab countries have announced that they will incorporate Chinese into their national education systems, 15 Arab countries have opened Chinese departments locally, and 13 Arab countries have established 22 Confucius Institutes. China currently has More than 50 colleges and universities offer Arabic majors.Salah Al-Naqib, a diplomat at the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in China, believes that Iraq and China have a long historical relationship, and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative will surely further strengthen cooperation and development between China and Arab countries.The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has gone through its first decade of prosperity and is embracing a new golden decade.We have known each other for thousands of years and created the future together.Looking forward to 2024, China and Afghanistan are expected to continue to work together to promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" on the basis of peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning, and mutual benefit, and build a "development belt" and "connection" connecting China and Afghanistan. "Heart Bridge" and "Happiness Road".(Author: Chen Luyi, participating in the writing: intern Meng Zhouxiang)
