The "IFF China Report 2018" jointly published by the International Finance Forum (IFF) and the British "Central Bank" magazine was held on the 18^th at the Brookings Institution of the US think tank. According to the report, 92% of the central banks in the countries and regions surveyed believe that the “Belt and Road Initiative” will boost the economic growth of participating countries.
 

According to Zhou Yanli, vice president of IFF, the report brings together 30 representative national and regional central bank questionnaires to summarize the results, experiences and problems of China's “One Belt, One Road” initiative over the past five years. The survey found that 92% of central banks surveyed believe that projects related to the “Belt and Road” initiative will boost the economic growth of participating countries in the next five years. Among them, 25% of the central banks surveyed believe that it will boost 2% to 5% of GDP growth; 67% of central banks surveyed believe that it will boost GDP growth within 1%.

Zheng Zhijie, president of the China Development Bank, said at the event on the 18^th that Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the “Belt and Road Initiative” in 2013. This is the “Chinese wisdom” and “China program” to solve the human development problem. A new platform for the community of destiny. In the past five years, the “Belt and Road Initiative” has received wide support and positive response from the international community. The initiative has gradually transformed from ideas to actions and from vision to reality.

Zheng Zhijie said that under the background of the current “anti-globalization” and “populism”, unilateralism and trade protectionism, the concepts of openness, cooperation, tolerance and mutual benefit advocated by the “One Belt, One Road” initiative are even more obvious. It’s precious. He said that the era of economic globalization is irreversible.

Li Changchun, director of the Asia-Pacific Bureau of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said on the same day that the whole world has witnessed China's extraordinary achievements in the past few decades and its enormous contribution to global economic growth. Facts have proved that market opening, expanding trade, structural reforms, and increasing infrastructure investment are beneficial to China and the entire world.