Year-ender: 10 major BRI events in 2019 (4)

Belt and Road Studies Network launched

On April 24, the Belt and Road Studies Network (BRSN) was inaugurated in Beijing.

The BRSN is an open mechanism of academic exchanges and cooperation, which is established to serve international think tanks, international and regional organizations and researchers of various countries, and promote the studies and academic exchanges on the BRI.

Relevant Chinese think tanks jointly launched the BRSN with Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev University, Indonesia's Center for Strategic and International Studies, Bulgaria's National Association for the Belt and Road, the African Center for Economic Transformation, the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, the New Silk Road Institute of the Republic of Korea, Russia's Valdai Discussion Club and Harvard's Ash Center of the United States.