On January 26, 2026, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on business work and operation in 2025. A series of data released at the conference demonstrated the strong resilience and fruitful results of the "the Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation. By 2025, China will have achieved a turnover of 1.1 trillion yuan in jointly building national contracted projects, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%. At the same time, more than 700 aid projects will be organized and implemented, covering landmark projects and "small but beautiful" livelihood projects, injecting solid impetus into the construction of an open world economy and the promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind.

In the past year, the Ministry of Commerce and relevant countries have made concerted efforts to promote the deepening and implementation of the "the Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation. The results are mainly reflected in the "three new", and continue to expand the breadth and depth of cooperation.

Trade cooperation has shown new highlights, and the vitality of two-way trade continues to burst forth. By 2025, the trade volume of goods between China and the co building countries will reach 23.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%, which is 2.5 percentage points higher than the overall trade volume. The proportion of China's total trade volume in goods will increase to 51.9%. The co building countries have become the core growth pole of China's foreign trade, and the stickiness of trading partners continues to increase.

Bilateral investment shows new vitality, and cooperation areas continue to expand. In 2025, China's non-financial direct investment in jointly building the country will be 283.36 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18%; The direct investment of jointly built countries in China reached 116.81 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.9%, and the two-way investment achieved steady growth. Throughout the year, 18 new cooperation agreements were signed with co building countries, focusing on emerging fields such as production and supply chain cooperation, digital economy, and green minerals. The "dual park" cooperation between China, Malaysia, and Indonesia was orderly promoted, providing a solid platform for cross-border investment cooperation.

The project construction has shown new achievements, and the level of connectivity continues to improve. In addition to the impressive performance of a contracted engineering turnover of 1.1 trillion yuan, the annual operation volume of China Europe freight trains has exceeded 20000, and key interconnection projects such as the China Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Railway and the Hungary Serbia Railway have made significant progress, efficiently opening up cross regional logistics channels. More than 700 various types of aid projects have been implemented, which not only helps to improve the infrastructure of the jointly built countries, but also accurately meets the needs of local people's livelihoods, making the cooperation results more beneficial to the people of all countries.

Looking forward to the future, China will focus on four major priorities, continue to deepen the "the Belt and Road" economic and trade cooperation, and promote cooperation to improve quality and efficiency, and upgrade iteratively.

One is to improve the quality and efficiency of trade facilitation. Promote the signing of free trade agreements with more willing co building countries, establish trade facilitation working groups, and consolidate the foundation of trade cooperation systems. Continuously building the "Export to China" brand, fully relying on major exhibition platforms such as the China International Import Expo, expanding imports from self built countries, promoting balanced development of trade in both directions, while promoting the optimization and upgrading of trade channels such as the China Europe freight train and the land sea new channel, and improving the level of logistics facilitation.

The second is to optimize the two-way investment space. Organize the "Invest in China" brand event, establish a precise investment matching platform, and attract more high-quality capital from jointly built countries to invest in China. Guide the rational and orderly cross-border layout of the production and supply chain, fully leverage the role of platforms such as border (cross-border) economic cooperation zones, overseas economic and trade cooperation zones, and "dual parks of the two countries", continue to promote the signing of cooperation documents for the production and supply chain, and build strong support for investment cooperation.

The third is to expand emerging areas of cooperation. Focusing on the trends of green development and digital transformation, promoting the signing of more cooperation agreements in emerging fields, and deepening the coordinated development of green minerals, clean energy, digital economy, artificial intelligence and other fields. Expand the "Silk Road E-commerce" circle of friends with high quality, build a "Silk Road E-commerce" cooperation pilot zone with high standards, and cultivate new growth points for trade and investment.

The fourth is to create high-quality cooperative projects. We will coordinate the construction of landmark projects and "small and beautiful" livelihood projects, implement high-quality foreign contracted projects and aid projects, continue to polish "small and beautiful" cooperative brands such as mushrooms and grass, accurately connect with the improvement of national infrastructure and production and living needs, and use pragmatic cooperation to help countries achieve common development and prosperity.(This article is from www.seetao.com, the official website of Daodao, and cannot be reproduced without permission. Otherwise, it will be prosecuted. Please specify the website of Daodao+the original link for reproduction.) See the editor of the the Belt and Road column of Daodao/Yin Jiahui