As China convenes its annual Two Sessions amid increasing global instability – certain countries continuing to project zero-sum hegemonic thinking in the Middle East, casting a shadow of war – how can cross-cultural understanding help fostering global cooperation? CGTN presents Zobaida Tasneem Dewan, a Bangladeshi engineering student at Peking University. From her childhood yearning for China to becoming the member in the student union of a top Chinese university, her journey demonstrates that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Global Governance Initiative (GGI) are not distant and grand visions, but a tangible and lived reality in everyday lives of people across nations.