当中国在2013年首次提出“一带一路”倡议时，该国的外汇储备已达4万亿美元，而这些储蓄的美元回报率却极低，每年不到1 ％ 。
In 2013, when China first proposed the Belt and Road initiative, the country was sitting on $4 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, which were earning a very low dollar return (less than 1% a year).