A Five-Pronged Approach

In his speech at Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev University on September 7, 2013, Xi Jinping proposed building a new Silk Road Economic Belt by promoting policy coordination, transport connectivity, unimpeded trade, currency convertibility, and closer people-to-people ties.

At the Bo'ao Forum for Asia on March 28, 2015, the Chinese government issued a white paper entitled Joining Hands to Build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road – Vision and Actions. This document also called for policy coordination, infrastructure connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and closer people-to-people ties (a five-pronged approach), so as to build a community of shared interests and responsibility and a shared future, on the basis of mutual trust, economic integration and cultural inclusiveness.

While each of the five components of this approach is distinct, and will shift in focus at different stages in building the Belt and Road, they form an integrated whole and are inseparable and mutually reinforcing.

“五通”

2013 年 9 月 7 日，習近平在哈薩克斯坦納扎爾巴耶夫大學發表演講，首次提出加強“政策溝通、道路聯通、貿易暢通、貨幣流通、民心相通”，共同建設“絲綢之路經濟帶”的倡議。2015 年 3 月 28 日，中國政府在博鰲亞洲論壇 2015 年年會期間正式發布《推動共建絲綢之路經濟帶和 21 世紀海上絲綢之路的愿景與行動》，提出要以“政策溝通、設施聯通、貿易暢通、資金融通、民心相通”（簡稱“五通”）為主要內容，打造“一帶一路”沿線國家政治互信、經濟融合、文化互容的利益共同體、責任共同體和命運共同體。在“一帶一路”建設全面推進過程中，“五通”既相互獨立，在不同時間階段各有重點，也是統一整體，需要相互促進，不可分割。