Colin Mackerras, Sinologist and professor emeritus at the Griffith University in Australia, said he believes the BRI can bring peace and development to the world in the coming decades, and has the potential to help realize Eurasian solidarity.

Li Yonghui, a professor of international relations at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, when commenting on some of the speeches, said that it is inspiring that the Sinologists look at China's modernization from a larger perspective of human civilization, and with a cultural and historical depth.

"Facing the momentous changes unseen in a century, Sinology today has brand-new characteristics and a mission that attaches greater importance to realistic solicitude and frontier thinking," said Liu Li, principal of the Beijing Language and Culture University, co-organizer of the World Sinology Lecture program.

"We'll constantly provide intellectual support for national and regional development based on the construction of both a community for the Chinese nation and a human community with a shared future," he said.

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