Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated on the 8th that China has become an important driving force for global connectivity, and will adhere to the principle of consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits to assist the modernization of countries in the global South. At the regular press conference on the same day, a reporter asked: When the media of various countries carried out the year-end inventory, the achievements of China's development of connectivity cooperation received high attention. Many people believed that the new modes of connectivity transportation, such as "China Laos Railway+China Europe Train", "China Laos Railway+Western New Land Sea Channel Train", became the "new engine" to drive regional economic development. Can the spokesperson introduce the relevant situation? Guo Jiakun said that in recent years, China and relevant countries have continued to receive good news on connectivity and cooperation: the cumulative number of China EU trains has exceeded 100000, the total volume of freight transport of China Laos railway has exceeded 50 million tons, the annual number of new land and sea routes in the west has exceeded 10000 for the first time, the China Europe direct transportation across the Caspian Sea has been opened, the construction of the China Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan railway has been started, important progress has been made in key projects such as the China Vietnam cross-border railway and the East Coast Railway of Malaysia, and the new China Latin America land and sea channel of "Qian Kai Shanghai" has achieved two-way connectivity. China has become an important driving force for global connectivity. Guo Jiakun said that connectivity is one of the key cooperation areas of the "the Belt and Road" initiative proposed by China, which meets the demands of the global South for "enabling development". Recently, China has introduced 15 new measures to further promote the development of the western region, proposing to work together to promote the construction of international logistics channels and accelerate the formation of a comprehensive open pattern of land, sea, and domestic linkage, as well as east-west mutual assistance. Guo Jiakun said, "We will adhere to the principle of extensive consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits, continuously expand new spaces for win-win development that are at a higher level, more resilient, and more sustainable, and share opportunities and dividends with the world through high-quality development and high-level opening up, helping countries in the global South to modernize