Dr. Liu Rongxin, General Director of the Department of Regional Development Planning at CDI, gave a keynote speech on China’s experience with special economic zones (SEZs) and the success story of Shenzhen SEZ at the Seminar on Sino-Kuwait Joint Efforts for the Belt and Road initiative which was co-hosted by Kuwait University and Embassy of China in Kuwait from April 18 to 19 in Kuwait City.

Discussions centered on the Belt and Road initiative, China-Kuwait relations, China’s experience with SEZs, and the development of the five islands in Kuwait, were held among Mr. Wu Sike, the Chinese special envoy to the Middle East, Chinese experts on the economics and the Middle East, Chinese business representatives in Kuwait and political, economic and law experts from Kuwait. Kuwaiti government officials, such as Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti Minister of Amiri Diwan, also attended the opening ceremony of the seminar.