What are the Belt and Road cities, regions

Posted by Thomas Shaw on December 18th, 2020

A total of 18 Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities are involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. As of March 2020, the number of countries that have joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China is 138. 138 countries are part of the BRI.

Aerial photo taken on April 11, 2019 shows a container wharf at Qinzhou port in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Guangxi has played an increasingly important role under the Belt and Road Initiative. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

-- Jointly building BRI

A total of 13 Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, including Xinjiang, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Guangxi, Yunnan and Tibet, are involved in the Silk Road Economic Belt.

China's Shanghai municipality and the four provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Hainan are the participants of the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road.

-- Belt and Road countries and regions

As of March 2020, the number of countries that have joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China is 138. 138 countries are part of the BRI.

The countries of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are spread across all continents:

38 countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa