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Abstract Some countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region start the process to coordinate thedevelopment of the Belt and Road Initiative. President Xi Jinping proposes that, the region makes the natural extension of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and the regional countries are indispensable participant in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. Focusing on transportation, energy and communication, the region is accelerating the process of regional interconnection, which aligns with the facilities connectivity in the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), Project for Integration and Development in Mesoamerican (PM), and Petro-Caribe are 3 rather important sub-regional cooperation mechanisms for interconnection, and the projects can beclassified into 3 levels: the domestic interconnection, the sub-regional interconnection, and the inter-continental interconnection. China-CELAC Forum provides an important platform to deepen the comprehensive cooperation partnership of China and the region, and to promote comprehensive cooperation. By virtue of the platform, both sides should take the interconnection as the priority area, the 3 levels interconnection as the bases, and the 10 bi-oceanic corridors as the crucial projects, so as to establish the diversified, multi-level mechanisms for the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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