The Academia International Conference on Hong Kong and the World under the Belt and Road Initiative was co-hosted by the Chinese University’s Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies and the Central Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region . Opportunities and potential of the Belt and Road Initiative, put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 was discussed by scholars, politicians, administrators coming from 32 different countries (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-03/28/c_134105435.htm). The sessions dealt on one hand with economic,financial and legal aspects of the issue and on the other hand with the social cultural and political aspects in West, Central, South and East Asia, in Africa and in Europe.