China’s National Development and Reform Commission said it will, aligned with
the 15th Five-Year Plan, coordinate with other ministries to strengthen
international cooperation mechanisms in emerging fields and expand pragmatic
Belt and Road cooperation. It set four high-priority pillars: high-quality
Digital Silk Road — advance cooperation on smart cities, smart industry, smart
agriculture, smart healthcare and smart education and support cross-border
e-commerce and new business models; high-quality Innovation Silk Road — deepen
implementation of the Belt and Road science and technology innovation action
plan to accelerate integration of technological and industrial innovation;
high-quality Green Silk Road — promote cooperation on green infrastructure,
energy, transport and green finance, deepen climate-change cooperation and build
closer green development partnerships; high-quality Health Silk Road —
strengthen cross-border collaboration on public-health emergency prevention and
response and infectious-disease control, deepen paired-hospital cooperation and
develop overseas centers for traditional Chinese medicine.
