【 Guangming Forum 】 Author: Gao Yanmei (Associate Professor at Wuhan University of Commerce) Recently, the 7th Silk Road International Expo and China East West Cooperation and Investment Trade Fair came to an end in Xi'an, Shaanxi. According to statistics, a total of 1857 cooperation projects were signed at this year's Silk Road Expo, with a total investment of 1.22 trillion yuan, including 46 projects utilizing foreign investment, with a total contract investment of 9.054 billion US dollars; 1811 domestic joint projects were signed with a total contract investment of 1.16 trillion yuan, achieving fruitful results. As the only economic and trade event named after the "Silk Road" in China, the Silk Road Expo has been successfully held for seven times, injecting new impetus into the high-quality joint construction of the "the Belt and Road". The Silk Road Expo is an important means of attracting investment and investment. The total amount of foreign investment contracts signed in the previous six Silk Road Expo was 45.367 billion US dollars, and the total investment in domestic joint project contracts exceeded 8 trillion yuan. At this year's Silk Road Expo, products along the Silk Road, such as red wine from France, beer from Germany, chocolate from Russia, and flour from Kazakhstan, were showcased; Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Xinjiang and other provinces and regions held multiple economic and trade exchange activities during the conference. The International Exchange Exhibition Area of this year's Silk Road Expo covers an exhibition area of 16000 square meters, the largest scale in history, and has achieved a series of cooperation results, covering eight major fields: modern agriculture, infrastructure, equipment manufacturing, high-tech, light industry, food and medicine, energy conservation and environmental protection, commercial logistics, and cultural tourism. In addition, the Silk Road Expo has become an incubation platform for industrial upgrading. The Modern Agriculture Exhibition, Advanced Manufacturing Industry Exhibition, and Modern Service Industry Exhibition established at this year's Silk Road Expo provide a stage for enterprises to showcase new technologies, products, and services. As one of the major investment and exchange activities of this year's Silk Road Expo, the 2023 China Industrial Transfer and Development Docking Event (Shaanxi) provides an important platform for industrial exchange and cooperation, helping to develop advanced manufacturing, modern energy, strategic emerging industry clusters, and enhance the level of key industrial chains. Counting the changes in the themes of previous Silk Road Expo, from "jointly building new platforms and promoting new development" to "interconnectivity, integration, progress, sharing, and win-win", and then to "economic and trade expansion, interconnectivity, and mutual benefit and win-win", the consistent concept is the concept of mutual benefit through cooperation, and the continuous deepening is the firm determination to open up and develop. Through the Silk Road International Expo, a new window of high-level opening up, we can see that the initiative of jointly building the "the Belt and Road" conforms to the requirements of the times and the desire of countries to accelerate development, has received a broad and enthusiastic response from the international community, has brought tangible benefits to the co building countries, and has provided important support for the realization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity in the modernization of the world. Currently, the historical trend of economic globalization is irreversible, and countries are more interconnected and interdependent than ever before. The Silk Road International Expo has built an important platform for promoting domestic and international economic and trade exchanges and win-win cooperation, helped Shaanxi and even all regions of the country deeply integrate into the overall situation of jointly building the "the Belt and Road", and promoted the formation of a new pattern of interaction at home and abroad, and two-way economic cooperation and opening up between the east and the west. On a new journey and starting point, we must promote the spirit of the Silk Road, build, utilize, and leverage the golden signboard of the Silk Road Expo, and further improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation and exchange. enter