In September 2013, China for the first time made the proposal of joint construction of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” in Kazakhstan, and in October of that year offered in Indonesia to enhance the maritime cooperation for the construction of the 21st-century “Silk Road Economic Belt” in the. By then, “the Belt and Road” initiative was formally put forwarded In March 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China jointly issued the document titled Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21^st Century Maritime Silk Road, further indicating the development direction of “the Belt and Road” initiative.