International Scientific Conference “Sixteen plus one framework as part of the Belt and Road Initiative and Chinese Dream – achievements, challenges and prospects “ organised by the Institute for Asian Studies and the Center for Asian and Far Eastern Studies (FPS), University of Belgrade was held from 24th to 25th April 2017 at the Faculty of Political Sciences. The conference was opened by Professor Dragana Mitrovic, director of the Institute for Asian Studies, initiator and chief organiser.
This prestigious academic event hosted some of the greatest connoisseurs of modern China and the Indo-Pacific region and China’s cooperation with the countries of our region. The conference was attended by experts from Serbia and the region: Romania, Slovak, Polish, Bulgaria, the People’s Republic of China, Japan, India, Germany, France, and the United States, as well as from the EU and the UN.
The event was helped by FPN, Hanban (Confucius Institute, Beijing), the Embassy of India and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.