This year marks the 10th anniversary of President Xi Jinping’s proposal to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative. Over the past 10 years, the initiative has gradually become a popular international public project and a global cooperation platform. What has made the BRI so attractive and distinctive from other projects? What has the BRI brought to those participating countries, and what will it bring to the world? And how can we understand and respond to criticism which may have hindered the willingness of some countries to participate? Guests in this special Dialogue are Bruno Maçães, former Portuguese minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs; Zoon Ahmed Khan, researcher at the Belt and Road Strategic Research Institute of the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University; Augusto Soto, director at the "Dialogue with China" program at ESADE Business School in Spain; Prof. Adrian H. Hearn from the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Melbourne; and Wang Yiwei, vice president of the Academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at Renmin University of China. This discussion is part of the Second International Forum on "Dialogue between China and the World" chaired by Renmin University of China.