The Belt And Road Initiative (English Edition) takes part of the speech Work Together to Build the Silk Road Economic Belt made by President Xi Jinping in Nazarbayev University of Kazakhstan in September 2013 as the starting chapter and part of the speech made by President Xi Jinping on the opening of the eighth ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) as the closing chapter. It includes 42 scripts of building the Belt and the Road Initiative made by President Xi Jinping, with approximately 130,000 Chinese characters.
Xi Jinping (simplified Chinese: 习近平; traditional Chinese: 習近平) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the President of the People's Republic of China, and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. As Xi holds the top offices of the party and the military, in addition to being the head of state through the office of President, he is sometimes informally referred to as China's "paramount leader". As General Secretary, Xi is also an ex officio member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's de facto top decision-making body.