A conference on building the China-initiated 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and advancing international industrial cooperation is set to convene from Sept. 6 to 8 in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province.

Xiamen, a coastal city in southeast China's Fujian Province

The three day conference is designed to explore the development and future of the Maritime Silk Road (MSR).

Since its inception, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative has met with positive response and support from relevant countries. It has become the common expectation of nations and people to create development opportunities, improve growth potential and strengthen people-to-people bonds through the Maritime Silk Road (MSR).

As a communication platform for involved states and various sides, this conference will look into hot issues and challenges facing the construction of the MSR, with a view to enhancing mutual learning among states and civilizations, promoting concrete cooperation and interlinked economic growth and creating a conducive international atmosphere for win-win cooperation within the framework of the MSR.

Participants include dignitaries, former dignitaries, influential think-tank leaders, media elites, representatives from Global 500 businesses from countries along the Maritime Silk Road (MSR), renowned overseas Chinese, officials from various Chinese government agencies, leaders of Chinese think-tanks and research institutions and domestic and foreign media representatives.

The conference is jointly sponsored by the Belt and Road Think Tank Alliance, the China International Fair for Investment and Trade Organizing Committee and the Eco-Agriculture and Food Safety Forum for the Belt and Road.

It is co-hosted by Fudan University and Huaqiao University and is organized by the China Center for Contemporary World Studies and the Foreign Affairs Office of the Fujian Provincial Government

In Oct. 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed building a close-knit China-ASEAN community and offered guidance on constructing a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road to promote maritime cooperation.

The 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road is designed to go from China's coast to Europe through the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean along one route, and from China's coast through the South China Sea to the South Pacific along another.

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