Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General of International Road Transportation Union

Excellent remarks. If you really listen to what he said, he was talking about the future, looking at all our global challenges we have today. And not only looking at the challenges, but moreover what are the solutions. And he, in a very eloquent, I'd even say in a very articulate way, demonstrated how by looking at the past we can figure out the future.

Basically, what he said is that in the past when all the cultures were interconnected, we had progress, we had prosperity, and the most importantly we had peace. And so the way in the past of the future through the Belt and Road Initiative is progress, prosperity and peace by interconnecting everyone. And by this, we have cultural advantages, trade advantages, and economic advantages. It really is the vision of the future of how this planet, not just China and Eurasia, but how this planet can progress.