"Today, as we roll out the blueprint for the Belt and Road Initiative, we strive to forge a route for cooperation across the Pacific, in order to draw closer the two lands of abundance of China and Latin America, and open a new era of friendly relations."

"We hope to turn the Belt and Road Initiative into a road of peace, prosperity, openness, green development and innovation and a road that brings together different civilizations."

"Whatever changes may take place in the world and whatever obstacles may confront us, China and Arab states have always been good partners, sharing mutual benefit, and good brothers going through thick and thin together."