May 5, 2017

"The upcoming high-level forum on China's Belt and Road Initiative will send a positive and important message to the world that globalization is irreversible and the win-win cooperation can inject strong impetus to the future world development, a senior UN official has said.

Wu Hongbo, UN under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs, told a group of UN-based Chinese news outlets in an interview that the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, scheduled for May 14-15 in Beijing, will be 'a great event both in China and the world this year,' and it will be held against a backdrop of rising voices against globalization and for trade protectionism in some parts of the world, the western countries in particular."

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