The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which is scheduled for May 14-15 in Beijing, presents the world a golden opportunity to seek cross-continental development cooperation featuring inclusiveness and openness.

With the theme "Boosting Cooperation and Realizing Win-Win Development", the forum will give fresh impetus to collaborative efforts to realize a more balanced, equitable and inclusive development model.

First proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road have won wide support from the international community, and there is now a broad international consensus on quickening the implementation of the initiative.