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Ten years ago, in a speech at Nazarbayev University, President Xi Jinping proposed the creation of the Silk Road Economic Belt that would later be a part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Ten years on, the BRI has spawned numerous projects across the world. The Hub with Wang Guan talks to Shigeo Katsu, president of Nazarbayev University, who witnessed this epochal moment. "That's going to be a large-scale undertaking," he thought back then. Katsu walks down the memory lane and looks at what the BRI has achieved so far.