China has been pursuing open, green, clean and high-standard cooperation to promote sustainable development and improve people's livelihood since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was introduced 10 years ago, according to a white paper released on Tuesday.

The white paper, titled "A Global Community of Shared Future: China's Proposals and Actions," was released by the State Council Information Office.

The country seeks green development with its partners in key areas, such as infrastructure, energy, transportation, finance, science and technology and climate change.

For example, a Chinese-funded wind farm in northern Kazakhstan, which contains 30 generating units with a generation capacity of 150 megawatts in its first phase, was connected to the grid at the end of December last year.

Once fully completed, it is expected to provide about 600 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity to the local grid every year, equivalent to saving 190,000 tonnes of standard coal and reducing 480,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

As to transportation, the China-Laos Railway, operating for 21 months, has seen over 20.9 million visits and transported more than 25.36 million tonnes of cargo, according to Cong Liang, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, at a press conference on Tuesday.

The 1,035-km cross-border railway, connecting Kunming city in southwest China's Yunnan Province with the Lao capital Vientiane, has been linked with the China-Europe freight train routes since July.

It helps facilitate the transport of goods from Southeast Asia to Europe, shortening the transport time to 15 days, saving half the time compared with traditional sea routes.

Such overseas project cooperation has led to positive progress. Taking the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway as an example, it stimulated employment growth and optimized local supply chain, with over 75 percent of the project's services and procurement sourced locally in Indonesia, Lu Kang, Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia, said in early September.

The project also helped train thousands of qualified technicians for Indonesia, who have improved their lives and upgraded their work skills through employment, Lu added.

In addition, Chinese new energy vehicle companies are expanding to Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and other countries, thus promoting green transformation and upgrading of the ASEAN automobile industry.

In order to strengthen cooperation in green finance, financial institutions from China and other countries set up branches, launched bonds and built pilot zones. For instance, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Singapore launched its first Green Belt and Road Inter-bank Regular Cooperation Bonds in 2019, with a total amount equivalent to $2.2 billion. 

China pursues an ecological pattern that obeys nature and green development, promotes carbon neutrality and adheres to green, low-carbon, circular and sustainable development, said Wang Wen, executive dean at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of the Renmin University of China during a phone interview on Tuesday to China Media Group.

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