CGTN's He Beibei sat down with the ambassador of Costa Rica in China for an exclusive interview in which the ambassador explained her own understanding of OBOR.

The ambassador said the Belt and Road Initiative should be understood with a Confucian and not a Western mind. When she studied Confucius, she learned that a person's welfare depends on his or her family's welfare, and the family's welfare depends on the community's welfare, and moreover, the community's welfare depends on the province's welfare. Thus China wants to develop in order to provide happiness to its own people, and cannot make it alone, it has to be done jointly with the whole world. Talking about achievements brought by OBOR, she mentioned that under a free trade agreement with China, Costa Rica is beginning to export to China several kinds of goods, and this is a rising trend.