At the 2023 Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum, the attendees discussed the ways to increase the chances of international cooperation and better leverage finance to drive economic development in multiple sub-forums.

During the parallel forum titled "Promoting the Joint Construction of the 'Belt and Road' and Advancing Regional Cooperation and Win-win Development" and held on the morning of November 9, Zhai Dongsheng, Director General of the Belt and Road Initiative Center of the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China, introduced in his speech that the Belt and Road Initiative has had a positive impact during the past decade mainly in six ways. To be more specific, the Initiative has improved global connectivity, unleashed the potential of cooperation in trade and investment, expanded the frontiers for international cooperation, contributed to global poverty alleviation, improved the opening-up of China, and advanced the transformation of the global governance system towards a more fair and reasonable direction.