2月12日，商務部副部长钱克明在商务部专题新闻发布会上表示，2018年全年，“一带一路”经贸合作规模扩大、质量提升、亮点纷呈。

贸易往来快速发展。中国与9个“一带一路”沿线国家签订了电子商务合作文件，促进中欧班列全年开行6363列，运送货物54万标箱，与“一带一路”沿线国家贸易额达1.3万亿美元，增长16.3%，高于外贸整体增速。

投资合作不断深化。“一带一路”沿线国家2018年对华投资60.8亿美元，中国对“一带一路”沿线国家直接投资162.7亿美元，在沿线国家对外承包工程完成额893.3亿美元。

重大项目做优做精。一批互联互通项目陆续落地，马尔代夫中马友谊大桥已通车，亚吉铁路已开通运营，瓜达尔港也具备了完全作业能力。泰中罗勇工业区、中埃泰达苏伊士经贸合作区，以及西哈努克港经济特区亦呈良好发展态势。

自贸区网络加快建设。立足周边、辐射“一带一路”、面向全球的高标准自贸区网络正在形成。

合作机制逐步完善。在双边经贸联委会和混委会框架下，中国与泰国、肯尼亚专门设立了贸易畅通工作组，与科威特、约旦建立了投资合作工作组，与七个国家建立了服务贸易合作机制，这些机制的建立为“一带一路”建设提供了制度保障。

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.