The Handbook of The Belt and Road, an encyclopedic account of the Belt and Road Initiative, was launched in multilingual versions on June 20 in Beijing.
The book involved 110 scholars as writers to offer 498 entries, as “we strive to comprehensively and systematically reflect the latest progress and latest expressions of the initiative”, said Zhao Jianglin, one of the executive editors of the book and a researcher from the Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The idea of publishing the book, by Cai Fang and Peter Nolan, first surfaced in 2017. It has been revised and enriched in its 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024 (to be published soon) Chinese editions. Cai is an economist with the Chinese academy and Nolan is an acclaimed British expert on China and an economist.
Zhao said the book elaborates the original intention and principles of the initiative, as well as its history and current situation, basic knowledge and related research.
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