The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) carries forward the vision of the Silk Road, an intent for friendship shaped over two millennia ago. Today, the BRI envisions a global community with a shared future, a partnership rooted in mutual prosperity.
Since 2013, the BRI has built on the momentum of its multilateral political and trade relations with the global community and has completed 254 projects, with 89 ongoing and 66 planned. Trade volume between China and Asean exceeded a total of about US$1 trillion in 2024. Within this context, Malaysia was China’s second-largest trading partner in ASEAN, with a total trade value of CNY 1.5 trillion (US$212bil ) for the same year.
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