As an invited speaker, Professor Dragana Mitrovic, head of IAS, participated in the International Conference: The 3rd International High-Level Forum on Overseas China Studies – Building a Human Community with a Shared Future among Profound Changes in a Century. Within the panel Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Development and Vision, Professor Mitrovic gave a speech on the following topic: “BRI after Six Years: Aspirations, Development and Challenges”. The Foreign Exchange Bureau of the Central Institute of Party History and Literature of CPC organised the Conference. The Conference took place in Beijing on December 5, 2019.