 understanding China. This is a new occasional series that's being developed at Think Tech Hawaii and it's rather unique in that it features people from America speaking with people in China. So across the board from business to cultural to education to government, we'll have a series of guests who will speak about the subject of understanding China. Really it could also be called understanding America because this is about a clear dialogue between the two great countries about our common interests and our common history and our common future. So today we have a very special guest for our first program and we're very thankful to Jay Fidel here at Think Tech for helping to arrange this. We have New Li who's live from Beijing and it's morning time in Beijing and late afternoon time in Honolulu. Hello New Li. Hello Michael. Hello welcome. New Li is the Secretary General of the International Ecotech Cooperation Committee and that's part of the China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. So it's a lot of syllables, a lot of words. It essentially means that New Li is part of the effort in China to reach out to the world to understand what China has to contribute and what the world has to give back to China. So we're going to engage on a very interesting topic right now that most people in America and really outside of China don't even know but it's a very prominent topic of conversation in China today and that is the Silk Road, the One Belt One Road policy. It's really inheriting from history the Silk Road and we have a map of what the Silk Road once was that we can show now and it really shows a time in China's history when China was the eastern terminus of the largest international trading network in all history. It extended all the way west through to Europe and all the way south into southern Asia and north into Russia and it existed for over a thousand years and they call it the Silk Road because one of the things that was chiefly traded was silk from China but there was a lot more than just silk and there was a lot more than just trading in the background of the Silk Road. So I wanted to ask New Li if you could explain this One Belt One Road policy where it came from, who introduced it and when? Aloha. My name is Carl Campania. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers and Reformers. I hope you join us as we take a deep dive into biofuels in Hawaii over the coming weeks and the alternative fuel supply chains necessary for the local and global transition towards transportation fuel sustainability. So New Li could you answer that the question? Sorry we had a little technical difficulty but we're back live now about the One Belt One Road policy. Who originated it and when and what is its key purpose? Okay Michael. Actually the One Belt One Road policy, the full name is One Belt and One Road Initiative. It was it was raised up in year 2013 on 17th of September when President Xi Jinping visits Kazakhstan and he's a speech in one of the university. The total idea for this policy is for as following China tradition from ancient times you know the Silk Road is bringing, it was bringing trading opportunity from China to eastern through the path of the road from mainland to the north and the other way around on the ocean in the south area. So it was following this trading path to to be applied in the current in the current economic development as a China leading this campus around China to grow business opportunity together. This is the whole concept. Right and I think one of the key historic figures that we would recognize around the world is Marco Polo. He was an early figure in the trade of the Silk Road and in fact helped help to open up and define some of those routes all the way from China all the way to Italy is that correct? Yes, yes, yes. Yeah and to this day you can find in a number of cities in China I know in Suzhou for example you can find squares and restaurants and even sculptures of Marco Polo that that memorialized that time. Yeah you know newly in trying to understand how China sees and thinks from inside through Chinese eyes I've always found it very interesting to understand the Chinese characters that are used to express an idea. So when you look at the Chinese characters for one belt one road they break down into different parts right before you get the full idea of one belt one road. What are those parts of the Chinese characters that express the idea? They'll give us some insight I think. From Chinese point of view it doesn't matter of a belt and road actually just a one line. It's a meaning of line. Just we can't say one belt and one belt or one road or one road we just separated as to the north we call one belt to the south we call one road but it's not very much difference it's just a line there one from mainland in the mainland one from Marine line. And part of it extends down into Africa right? Sorry? The part of it extends down into Africa part of the southern road goes all the way down into East Africa. Yes So what are the activities that we're that we're seeing come from the one belt one road? It's been practicing they've been building it expressing the idea having conferences signing trade agreements and so on for a number of years. What are the key activities that are actually taking place right now within this one belt one road idea? Newly did you hear? I think maybe it froze. My name is Mark Shklav and I'm the host of Law Across the Sea and Law Across the Sea is a program that brings attorneys who have traveled across the sea and live in Hawaii or are staying in Hawaii for a time to talk about their travels where they're from where they're going and bring it all together because really we're all connected some way although we traveled across the sea so hope that you'll tune in and watch our program thank you very much. I apologize for the breakup there where we have a live Skype connection over the internet between Honolulu and Beijing and sometimes there's a little dropout this is the first time we've done this actual connection but let me repeat my question for Newly again. Newly with the development of the this one road policy what are some of the specific activities and countries where there where that policy is being expressed right now? Because the policy for the whole idea the whole policy that the key concept is peacefully development you know there's rumors for international in please listen say China's written China development it's not it's not it's a misunderstanding China China develop itself but it should be a peacefully and together with countries all around the first step should be around China is like our neighbor so developed together. The activity with all those countries major on cultural exchange trading airline railway buildings internet yeah those kind of activities. So it's all the old original things like trade and so on but it's a lot of new things like e-commerce and telecommunications and so on. Yes and I just wanted to observe that for much of China's history China was very much reaching out to the whole world and very much the center of a global trading network and for some time then China turned inwards and was not so much engaged with the world. So now in the past 40 years China has really started to look outward again and reassert itself as being a leader of the world across so many areas. So this one belt one road policy is part of a continuing evolution of China's reaching out and embracing the world. Would you agree. Yes I agree. Have you taken part in any of the activities that are part of this policy. Any cultural festivals or trade agreements or educational exchanges. For our committee we involve every year a pack a pack submit and every every year two months ahead of a pack submit pack itself will host its annual meeting to submit the proposals for a pack submit leaders for consideration and then to sign agreement in the a pack submit. But we are as a think pack think tank pack as a think tank to provide proposals to a pack. Yeah. Other other kind of seminars project oriented. We involve lots of project cooperation with overseas and PECC. America is a member of PECC as well. So possibly America is an observer at these discussions about the one belt one road. One belt one road is the major job for PECC think tank for the research. What do you see as the next steps. Where are we going with this in 10 years. If everything is successful that you're doing now what will be what will be the developments we're looking forward to in China and across the one road. I think the first step actually for one one belt one road policies deal not really. OK. We'll take another brief break and we'll be back in a moment. OK. We want to tell you about Hawaii the state of clean energy which plays every Wednesday from four to four thirty Ray Starling and me we co host that show. Dean is here. He's from the consumer advocate. We just had a show. We like the show. We had a good time on the show. What do you think Ray. 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My program here on Think Tech is called Health Care in Hawaii. I'll have guests that should be interesting to you twice a month. We'll talk about issues that range from mental health care to drug addiction to our health care system and any challenges that we face here in Hawaii. We hope you'll join us again. Thanks for supporting Think Tech. OK. We're bringing our friends from Beijing back on the screen here. We're our Internet connection. There we go. So now we have a new guest. This is Lin Fan Lin the chief executive officer of Beijing Moza International Culture Development Company Limited. It's a very interesting media development and publishing group in Beijing. And they understand very well the role of the one belt one road. And also next to Lin Fan Lin is a Joe Xiaofang who is the is the president of Asia Pacific Group in China. And she is hosting this broadcast on the China end and she'll be translating. Good day Lin Fan Lin. Very good to meet you. Hello. I will ask a question which was really carried over from the previous segment. Looking forward with the one belt one road policy. It's really just beginning. It's only been actively pursued for three or four years. But looking forward where do we see this going. Let's say in 10 years. Assuming everything is successful. What will be the extent of that road. What countries will be involved. What activities will be part of this one self one one road policy. Thank you Michael. Now you can use that. It's been going on for three or four years. Now we're going to arrive at five years or ten years. This plan will go on. There will be no development. It will be in the face of some countries. What are you doing. It's like this. I understand this one belt one road. First of all it is a big one. A very big one. A project. And then in this project we will have a lot of projects and projects together. In fact, if there is no one belt one road this this statement these projects will still be in progress. But that is to say we proposed this one belt one road this long one. And then everyone is in this long one in the middle of looking for these projects that are suitable for their own country. So the first three years is that we are now China's foreign investment is probably around five hundred million yuan. So in the future I believe this kind of cooperation and investment will be more. For the one road one belt it's actually a big project. Imagine a big project from China. And there's involving a lot of business people. Lots of country which business is perfectly fit to you. So this project could be in Africa could be in Korea could be in Middle East that could be in Canada or America. So this is what they use in one road one belt to to explain a whole country is a big project. And so I mean it means to say you die in the實際上是中國的一個 looks like we need to reestablish our connection here again for a moment. Very sorry for the technical difficulties. We'll be right back. Aloha. My name is Justine Espiritu and I am the co-host of Hawaii Farmers Series. This is my co-host Matthew Johnson. And we are live with you every Thursday at 4 p.m. at think tech Hawaii dot com. And our show focuses on Hawaii's local food community. We feature not only the farmers that are producing our food but we also feature the supporters and other folks involved in the community that are trying to promote local agriculture. OK we're determined we're going to get down this one road. We're going to get there and we're back now. And I wanted to ask if you could give us a specific example if I'm in of the activities taking place under this new policy. Tell us a country and a project that you know of that's successful. That's part of the expression of this new policy by China. Can you give you a brief example of what you're doing and what you don't want to do. This specific example actually has a lot of things but what I understand is that from my work point of view we're more in the field of culture and some of the national development cooperation. So the cultural aspect is first of all is on the language. For example, we're now with Xun Ali. We're in this discussion. We're going to meet with Xun Ali in a language exchange center. So the function of this language exchange center is that it's a dual line. It's not that we're just going to teach Chinese there. So the same Xun Ali language is also going to go to China. And then we're both from the language perspective. There's a academic exploration at the student's point of view. And then we have a mutual exchange on the human resources. And then we expand to different areas. And there are so many examples for One Road, One Bell. And for Mr. Lin, because he's working related is for the translation languages and starting from cultural exchange. For instance, their company working with Hungarian cultural company and they have an exchange for language not only for Chinese teaching Hungarian about China and the cultural. Vice versa, the Hungarian also teaching Chinese their language and their cultural. And this is just the one example for One Road, One Bell. The collaboration, the working together. And from there, and they develop maybe the future other many projects. That's my understanding that the underlying principle behind this policy is one of mutual respect and equality between nations. Even the largest nations talking to the smallest nations. There's still full respect and equality between them. And this is an idea that was developed in the early days of China's history as a young nation soon after independence by Premier Zhou Enlai. Perhaps, Fan Lin, you could comment a little bit on the philosophical background behind the One Road policy and Zhou Zongli. And then we have a collaboration. In the early days of China, Premier Zhou Enlai, particularly emphasized the principle of mutual respect and equality. Can you tell us a little bit about Premier Zhou from that era to the present era? Yes. First of all, like Premier Zhou Zongli's mutual respect and equality, including his beauty and some of his diplomatic principles, he has already formed a culture. For Chinese people, even for the whole world, he may have already formed a culture that can be integrated into the world. So actually, what we are doing now is not to promote our Chinese culture, or to introduce our culture to other countries. We want to integrate our Chinese culture into the world. OK. We are close to the end of our program, and we'll try to bring our friends from Beijing back again for a moment. But I'd like to reflect on how the tides of history move from China and West and through to Europe, and ultimately Europe through to America, and how that stone kept skipping across the ocean to Hawaii. And here we are at the furthest western extent of civilization, and talking back to the very beginning of that link in China. It's interesting how we've come to the close of a cycle of history with this one-belt, one-road policy. And although it's initiated by China through all the other nations that it has alliances with, America is a welcome partner in the big picture of a one-belt, one-road. And we'll be exploring that theme with these organizations. I want to sincerely thank Niu Li and Lin Fan Lin for being our guests today. Two very influential organizations in China representing hundreds and thousands of other organizations and people who are all working towards this common objective. There are many aspects of this policy to explore, and that'll be one of our themes as we develop the program Understanding China. So thanks to everyone for persevering through our technical difficulties here on this program. And we look forward to rejoining you again soon.