The Belt and Road initiative achieved great results in 2020, said Qian Keming, Vice Minister of Commerce at the State Council Information Office’s special press conference on “Accelerating High-quality Business Development and Building a New Development Pattern” on Wednesday.

Facing the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, China and relevant countries jointly promoted Belt and Road cooperation and made new achievements, he said.

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China’s annual trade volume in goods with Belt and Road countries was $1.35 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 0.7 percent. Non-financial direct investment in these countries amounted to $17.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18.3 percent, according to the ministry.

Positive progress was made in projects including the China-Laos Railway, Jakarta-Bandung Railway and China-Belarus Industrial Park, Qian said.

(Compiled by Liu Kechen)