2月12日，商務(wù)部副部長(zhǎng)錢(qián)克明在商務(wù)部專(zhuān)題新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上表示，2018年全年，“一帶一路”經(jīng)貿(mào)合作規(guī)模擴(kuò)大、質(zhì)量提升、亮點(diǎn)紛呈。

貿(mào)易往來(lái)快速發(fā)展。中國(guó)與9個(gè)“一帶一路”沿線(xiàn)國(guó)家簽訂了電子商務(wù)合作文件，促進(jìn)中歐班列全年開(kāi)行6363列，運(yùn)送貨物54萬(wàn)標(biāo)箱，與“一帶一路”沿線(xiàn)國(guó)家貿(mào)易額達(dá)1.3萬(wàn)億美元，增長(zhǎng)16.3%，高于外貿(mào)整體增速。

投資合作不斷深化?！耙粠б宦贰毖鼐€(xiàn)國(guó)家2018年對(duì)華投資60.8億美元，中國(guó)對(duì)“一帶一路”沿線(xiàn)國(guó)家直接投資162.7億美元，在沿線(xiàn)國(guó)家對(duì)外承包工程完成額893.3億美元。

重大項(xiàng)目做優(yōu)做精。一批互聯(lián)互通項(xiàng)目陸續(xù)落地，馬爾代夫中馬友誼大橋已通車(chē)，亞吉鐵路已開(kāi)通運(yùn)營(yíng)，瓜達(dá)爾港也具備了完全作業(yè)能力。泰中羅勇工業(yè)區(qū)、中埃泰達(dá)蘇伊士經(jīng)貿(mào)合作區(qū)，以及西哈努克港經(jīng)濟(jì)特區(qū)亦呈良好發(fā)展態(tài)勢(shì)。

自貿(mào)區(qū)網(wǎng)絡(luò)加快建設(shè)。立足周邊、輻射“一帶一路”、面向全球的高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)自貿(mào)區(qū)網(wǎng)絡(luò)正在形成。

合作機(jī)制逐步完善。在雙邊經(jīng)貿(mào)聯(lián)委會(huì)和混委會(huì)框架下，中國(guó)與泰國(guó)、肯尼亞專(zhuān)門(mén)設(shè)立了貿(mào)易暢通工作組，與科威特、約旦建立了投資合作工作組，與七個(gè)國(guó)家建立了服務(wù)貿(mào)易合作機(jī)制，這些機(jī)制的建立為“一帶一路”建設(shè)提供了制度保障。

On February 12， Mr. Qian Keming，Vice Minister of Commerce ofPRC，said at a special press briefing thatthe year of 2018 had seen expansion inscale， improvement in quality and manyhighlights in the economic and tradecooperation under the Belt and RoadInitiative.

Trade developed rapidly. In 2018，China signed cooperation documents withnine countries along the Belt and Road，and CR express trains made 6，363 trips，delivering 540，000 TEUs of goods， andthe volume of trade with Belt and Roadcountries hit USD l.3 trillion， a 16.3%increase， higher than the overall growthrate of China's foreign trade.

Investment and cooperation wentdeeper. In 2018， the investment from Beltand Road countries in China reached USD6.08 billion， and China's direct investmentin those countries totaled USD 16.27billion. China as contractor completedcontracted projects worth USD 89.33billion in these countries.

Major projects made remarkableachievements. A batch of connectivityprojects has been delivered one afteranother： the China-Maldives FriendshipBridge and the Addis Ababa-DjiboutiRailway have been open to traffic， andthe Gwadar Port has operated at its fullcapacity. The Thai-Chinese RayongIndustrial Zone， the China-Egypt TEDASuez Economic and Trade CooperationZone， and the Sihanoukville SpecialEconomic Zone （SSEZ） showed goodmomentum.

The network of free trade zonesexpanded at a faster pace. A high-level network of FTZ that is based onneighboring countries. benefiting the Beltand Road participants， and serving theglobe started to conung into being.

Cooperation mechanisms improvedgradually. Under the framework of thejoint committees and mixed committeeson trade and economy， China hasestablished working groups for unimpededtrade with Thailand and Kenya， andworking groups for investment andcooperation with Kuwait and Jordan， aswell as cooperation mechanisms on tradein services with seven countries. A11 thesemechanisms have served as institutionalguarantee for the development of the Beltand Road Initiative.