(二)提升经贸合作水平

中国与“一带一路”沿线国家已经建立了紧密的经贸联系，有力地促进了各国经济和产业发展。中国重视进一步发展与“一带一路”沿线国家互利共赢的经贸伙伴关系，致力于建立更加均衡、平等和可持续的贸易体系。

(2) Enhancing economic and trade cooperation

China has maintained close economic and trade ties

with the B&R countries, which has greatly boosted the local economies and industrial development. China attaches

importance to furthering such ties to bring benefts to all,

and building a more balanced, equal and sustainable trade

system.

——密切经贸联系。中国与“一带一路”沿线国家贸易规模与结构持续优化，货物贸易平稳增长，服务贸易合作出现新亮点。在全球贸易持续低迷的背景下，2016年中国与“一带一路”沿线国家货物贸易总额9478亿美元，占同期中国货物进出口总额的25.7%。与“一带一路”沿线国家服务进出口总额1222亿美元，占同期中国服务进出口总额的15.2%，比2015年提高3.4个百分点。在产业转型升级、内需持续增长和消费需求升级的多重驱动下，中国巨大的国内市场也为“一带一路”沿线各国提供了广阔的经贸合作机遇。

– Cementing economic and trade ties. China and

the B&R countries continue to improve their trade scale

and structure, seeing a stable growth in goods trade and

breakthroughs in service trade. Against a backdrop of sluggish global trade, in 2016 China’s total trade volume with

the B&R countries reached US$947.8 billion, accounting

for 25.7 percent of its imports and exports of goods. The

volume of service imports and exports with these countries

stood at US$122.2 billion, accounting for 15.2 percent of

its total, up 3.4 percentage points from 2015. Driven by industrial transformation and upgrading, increasing domestic

demand, and upgrading of consumption, China’s huge market offers plenty of economic and trade opportunities for

these countries.

——构建“一带一路”自贸区网络。中国倡导更具包容性的自由贸易，与“一带一路”沿线经济体积极开展贸易协定谈判。中国－东盟自贸区升级、中国－格鲁吉亚自贸谈判已经完成，区域全面经济伙伴关系协定(RCEP)谈判取得积极进展，中国－马尔代夫自贸区等协定谈判取得重要突破。推进中国－海合会、中国－以色列、中国－斯里兰卡以及中国－巴基斯坦自贸区第二阶段谈判，推动中国－尼泊尔、中国－孟加拉国自贸区和中国－摩尔多瓦自贸协定联合可行性研究。

– Building the B&R free trade zone network. China

is an advocate of more inclusive free trade, and has conducted talks on trade agreements with the economies along

the Belt and Road. The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area has

been upgraded, and the China-Georgia free trade talks have

been completed. Real progress has been achieved in the

talks on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and breakthroughs have been made in the talks on the

China-Maldives Free Trade Area. Talks on the China-Gulf

Cooperation Council Free Trade Area, the China-Israel

Free Trade Area, the China-Sri Lanka Free Trade Area,

and phase-II of the China-Pakistan Free Trade Area are

progressing. Joint research on the feasibility of the ChinaNepal Free Trade Area, the China-Bangladesh Free Trade

Area and the China-Moldova free trade agreement is making progress as well.