mo4ch:>Engine of growth: Trade turnover across China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ exceeds $5 trillion since 2013 | Mo4ch News

It’s been five years since Beijing announced the ambitious multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Chinese companies have already built 82 economic and trade cooperation zones in 24 countries along the BRI routes.The project has created more than 240,000 jobs in BRI countries, according to China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi.“Over the past five years, trade volume in goods between China and countries involved in the initiative exceeded $5 trillion, and direct investment stands at over $70 billion,” said Yang Jiechi, head of the office of Foreign Affairs of China’s Communist Party.Also on rt.comChina’s New Silk Road to significantly boost global tradeHe explained that under the framework of the initiative, over 11,000 freight trains are already running between China and Europe. They link nearly 100 cities across the region.Yang also said that construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has increased the South Asian nation's GDP by two percent. The Mombasa-Nairob…