Belt and Road Initiative: China Craves More Infrastructure Dev’t Partnerships

The initiative provides an opportunity for Cameroon’s economy to be more competitive.

Creating more trade routes and strengthening existing ones between China and other countries for mutual benefit tops the agenda of the ongoing 13th session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Some 2,976 deputies out of the 2,980 participating in the ongoing parliamentary sessions are examining a proposal to this effect.

Given that the Belt and Road Initiative, which involves developing infrastructure like air routes, ports, industries, highways between countries, will be a prominent feature at the China-Africa Cooperation Summit to hold in Beijing in a couple of weeks.

The initiative will continue to make Chinese and partner economies more competitive, reducing the development gaps between landlocked countries and coastal regions. While delivering the Government Work Report during the first parliamentary plenary in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Li Keqiang, China’s Premier, revealed that his country will work toward building major international corridors, deepen cooperation on streamlining customs clearance and expand industrial capacity cooperation with interested countries.

From every indication, the initiative is an opportunity Cameroon may not want to miss, considering her great potentials in air, port, highway and railway transport; telecommunications netwo...