Guo Zhengli

Guo Zhengli

(Vice President, Ningxia Academy of Social Sciences)

Author

Guo Zhengli is Researcher, Vice President, and Member of the Party Committee of the Ningxia Academy of Social Sciences. He is also Guest Researcher for the National Society for Party Building Studies, a recipient of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region government special allowance, senior visiting scholar to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a panel member for the assessment of philosophy and social science subjects planned in Ningxia. Guo has headed and participated in over 20 state- and provincial-level research projects, with more than 30 published books to his name. Guo has published more than 80 articles in magazines such as Qiushi and Red Flag Manuscript, with many of them being reprinted and reposted in other major publications and websites. His research areas include Marxism, theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, applied economics and politics.

Abstract

The strategic vision that President Xi Jinping proposed to build Silk Road Economic Belt has far-reaching strategic significance to promote our economic prosperity and social harmony. The initiative is a historical choice of all-round opening strategy, a realistic choice of dealing with complex international situation, a strategic choice to ensure national energy security, and an inevitable choice of China's overall regional coordinated development. Ningxia has important strategic position in the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. It can serve a key link in cultural exchanges, a transportation hub along the economic belt, and an important base for the international energy cooperation. To participate in the construction of the belt, Ningxia aims to build itself into a regional thoroughfare, the country's energy processing and reserve base, and to construct a modern business center with Muslim characteristics and an international Islamic financial center.