（Opening ceremony of 2017 Boao Forum for Entrepreneurs）
BOAO, Hainan, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The 2017 Boao Forum for Entrepreneurs hosted jointly by China Economic Information Service (CEIS) of Xinhua News Agency and Xinhuanet was held from December 12 to 13.
At the two-day forum, leaders of governments, business and academia from home and abroad thoroughly discussed how to seize opportunities to achieve win-win cooperation for the countries and enterprises along the Belt and Road routes.
As a national and world-class news agency, Xinhua News Agency is duty-bound to serve the Belt and Road Initiative. In order to play an active role in the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative and better serve the national enterprises, Xinhua launched several service platforms including "National Brands Project", two national-level comprehensive information platforms "Xinhua Silk Road" and "Xinhua Finance", and a national-level credit information platform "Xinhua Credit" established by its wholly-owned subsidiary CEIS, said Liu Zhengrong, vice president and secretary general of Xinhua News Agency, in his opening speech.
With these platforms, Xinhua has built a multi-layer service system specializing in comprehensive information, authoritative credit rating, high professional standard think tank support and comprehensive brand extension, Liu added.
(Shi Zihai, deputy secretary general of National Development and Reform Commission, delivers a keynote speech)
Construction of credit rating system is an important part of the Belt and Road construction. Governments of the countries along the Belt and Road should enhance cooperation to build a reliable business environment, according to Shi Zihai, deputy secretary general of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
In addition, he appealed to speed up efforts in establishing exchange and cooperation mechanisms for governments and credit service institutions along the Belt and Road routes so as to promote exchanges and discussions on construction of the credit system between countries and push forward the construction of coordinated reward and punishment mechanisms for the cross-border credit system.
（"Xinhua Credit" is officially launched at the forum）
At the opening ceremony, the national-level credit information platform “Xinhua Credit” was officially launched and enterprises including CEFC China Energy, JD.com, Suning, etc. were awarded the certificate of “National Brands Project”.
(Enterprises are awarded the certificate of “National Brands Project”)
In addition, the research report on laws of countries along the Belt and Road routes and the report on the intellectual property rights index of those countries were also unveiled at the forum.
During the 2017 Boao Forum for Entrepreneurs, there were also two sub-forums involving the international financial cooperation for financial integration and the brand promotion under the Belt and Road, with the aim of creating a blueprint for win-win development during multi-layer financial cooperation and pursuing an intensive growth for the Chinese economy during the development of Chinese brands. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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