ChinesePod Today: Chinese President in Rome to Sign Belt and Road Deal (simp. characters)
  • 5 years ago
ChinesePod News (March 22, 2019)

Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Rome to sign an agreement regarding Italy’s involvement in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Under the non-binding memorandum of understanding, Italy would the first of the G7 nations to back the Chinese government’s ambitious infrastructure project.

NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/9u2vCBVGOq4

This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:

谅解备忘录: memorandum of understanding
计画: to plan
签署: to sign an official document
龙头: leader among companies
造访: to pay a visit
逾: to exceed
盛情款待: to be treated with warm and generous hospitality

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