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Over the past two years, since the inaugural Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) in 2017, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has tremendously evolved in terms of global awareness and real progress.

Located at the crossroads to ‘Belt and Road’ connecting the continent and the sea, Southeast Asian countries are at the junction of the world’s important sea routes.

Over the past three years, the Five Connectivity indexes between China and South Asian countries as a whole have not improved significantly .

The Five Connectivity Indexes of the 16 nations in West Asia and North Africa in 2017 present the following characteristics: the overall rankings drop sharply compared with 2016.

Europe stretches from a booming Asia-Pacific economic circle in the east to a mature and developed European economic circle in the west, therefore, it naturally becomes an important participant within the Belt and Road framework.

Eurasia is a key area for the Belt and Road Initiative (or BRI for short).