Belt and Road Construction Leadership Group

The Belt and Road construction leadership group (Chinese: 国家推进“一带一路”建设工作领导小组) (also called Leading Group for Promoting the Belt and Road Initiative) is the review and coordination body established by the State Council of the People's Republic of China to promote the Belt and Road Initiative.

State Council leader Han Zheng is the core and the China National Development and Reform Commission is the main body.

In September and October 2013, Xi Jinping, during his visit to Central Asia and Southeast Asian countries, proposed the "Silk Road Economic Belts" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" initiatives.

[1] The eighth meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party's Financial and Economic Leading Group, held in November 2014, proposed to accelerate the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and to plan the top-level design for the "Belt and Road" project.

[2] On February 1, 2015, the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and vice premier of the State Council Zhang Gaoli began to promote the "one belt and one road" construction work conference in Beijing.