21st Century Maritime Silk Road

Belt & Road Weekly, one of the "Xinhua Silk Road" information service products launched by China Economic Information Service, focuses on China's movements in implementing its Belt and Road Initiative and Chinese enterprises’ investment activities in the countries and regions along the Belt and Road. With a unique Chinese perspective, the newsletter offers access to detailed, professional, authoritative and exclusive information on activities of leading Chinese companies and their projects progresses in the Belt and Road construction and also in-depth analysis of macro and industry policies a...<br><br>Enjoying a long history, Fuzhou has been a political center of Fujian for a long time, an important city on the southeastern coast, and a gateway to the Maritime Silk Road. It has witnessed frequent trade, business exchanges, and multicultural integration between China and the Middle East and other Asian countries and regions. In recent years, Fuzhou has striven to build itself into a strategic hub for the 21st Century [https://en.imsilkroad.com Maritime Silk Road] and has become a founding member of the United Nations Maritime-Continental Silk Road Cities Alliance (UNMCSR). At the same time, Fuzhou was one of the earliest cities in China to open up and implement reform. In this pilot free trade zone and national new area, emerging industries have become increasingly prominent, and strategic emerging industries such as the Internet of Things(IOT), big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and high-tech industries are rapidly developing. China's first open laboratory for the Internet of Things and the China (Fuzhou) Internet of Things Industry Incubation Center were unveiled one after another. The world's largest commercial project for narrow-band IOT-enabled smart water business was also officially launched in Fuzhou.