China launched its Belt and Road portal (www.yidaiyilu.gov.cn) on Tuesday, the National Leading Group Office for Promoting the Construction of the Belt and Road Initiative has announced.

The portal, which is currently in English and Chinese for multiple terminals including PC and mobile, was established to strengthen information sharing and enhance exchanges in regard to activities under the Belt and Road Initiative.

The portal will serve as a platform for viewers to get the latest news about China and countries along the Belt and Road, interpretations to related policies, and the developments achieved under the initiative.

The portal has established an information liaison mechanism involving over 30 ministries and ministerial-level departments, all provincial-level regions in China and many countries along the routes, according to the introduction posted on the website.

Multi-language versions including Russian, French, Arabic and Spanish will be launched later this year.

The official Weibo and WeChat accounts were also launched at the same time.

The initiative of building the Silk Road Economic Belt was first raised by Chinese President Xi Jinping when he made a speech titled “Promote People-to-People Friendship and Create a Better Future” at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University on September 7,2013. One month later, he raised the initiative of building the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road when he delivered a speech to Indonesia’s Parliament on October 3, 2013.

The initiative aims to build a joint community of responsibility, shared interests, and destiny by taking full advantage of international transport routes along the Belt and Road.