Editor's note: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the initiative of jointly building the "the Belt and Road".Since the proposal was put forward, the "circle of friends" of the "the Belt and Road" has become larger and larger, with more and more good partners, higher and higher cooperation quality and better development prospects. Jointly building the "the Belt and Road" has become a popular international public product and international cooperation platform.
[Definition]
Transformation, also known as borrowing, is the process of recombining sentences from others according to the needs of expression, forming an organic whole.
"The envoys look at each other on the way" comes from Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian: Biography of Dawan": "The emperor is good at horses, and the envoys look at each other on the way." Dawan is an ancient country in the Western Regions, "many good horses, horses sweat blood, and their innate horses.". After Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty went on an envoy to the Western Regions, he discovered the Dawan Horse, which Emperor Wu of Han loved very much. Therefore, the Han envoy frequently traveled to various countries in the Western Regions. The phrase "business travel never stops on the way" is used in contrast to the phrase "envoys face each other on the way". The two sentences change the wording and together describe the grand occasion of the Silk Road envoys' business travel never stops on the way.
"Shipping to the Sea" comes from Han Yu's "Preface to the Book of Zheng", which describes the bustling commercial scene of Guangzhou during the Tang Dynasty: "Its overseas mixed countries... with tens of thousands of heaven and earth in the southeast, or at times when the wind and tide pay tribute, the barbarians Hu Jia people, ship to the sea." Guangzhou was an important external window of the Tang Dynasty, where Hu merchants gathered and engaged in commercial activities. The bustling scene of the Maritime Silk Road, where countless merchant ships cross the ocean and set sail, is described in the book "In the midst of the sea, the number is unknown".
This is both an innovation in language and a sublimation of thought.
[Interpretation]
The "the Belt and Road" initiative is a plan for common prosperity and development filled with oriental wisdom for the world, based on the valuable enlightenment left by the ancient Silk Road and focusing on the common dream of people of all countries to pursue peace and development.
Over 2000 years ago, our ancestors, with a simple desire for friendly exchanges, crossed the grasslands and deserts, and opened up the overland Silk Road connecting Asia, Europe, and Africa; Faced with the vast ocean, our ancestors set sail, traversing rough seas and breaking through the Maritime Silk Road that connects the east and west. From then on, the Silk Road on land was bustling with business travelers, the Spice Road on sea was soaring with sails, and the barriers of social organizations such as countries, ethnic groups, and single regions were broken, thus opening a new window for friendly exchanges among countries and ushering in a great era of exchange in the history of human civilization.
The ancient Silk Road stretches for thousands of miles. It has spread the achievements of civilization exchanges across the world, promoted the connectivity of countries in Asia and Europe, promoted the exchanges and mutual learning between eastern and western civilizations, and accumulated the spirit of the Silk Road with peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning, and mutual benefit and win-win as its core. Therefore, the "the Belt and Road" cultural heritage was born. China draws wisdom and strength from the ancient Silk Road, and proposes the "the Belt and Road" initiative, which is to strengthen the joint construction of national connectivity, achieve common economic prosperity, trade complementarity, and people to people connectivity, and awaken the long silent Silk Road to bloom again.
The great Silk Road embodies the pursuit of a better life by our ancestors. Today, we inherit the spirit of the ancient Silk Road and jointly discuss the construction of the "the Belt and Road", which is not only a continuation of the historical trend, but also a correct choice for the future. In the context of the accelerated evolution of the world's unprecedented changes in a century, the "the Belt and Road" has provided the world with the certainty of promoting new globalization through connectivity, the certainty of China's high-quality development through high-level opening up, and the contribution of China's wisdom and Chinese solutions to global governance.
