Once upon a time, several routes led from China to Central Asia to Europe, it was called the Silk Road. 

People would put things on camels and cross the desert to trade with other people, ships travelled from China through Southeast Asia to Africa, and they'd bring things back to China like giraffes. 

Well, a few years ago, China's president Xi Jinping proposed making new routes like the old routes, but even bigger. It's called the Belt and Road Initiative. More stuff can move around the world more easily, and people can travel more easily, and build things countries need. They are building new things like highways and railways, and airports, and even pipelines and internet cables. 

It's not just about roads to move stuff. It's also about people and cooperation and increasing globalization. Countries make deals about buying and selling things, they visit each other's countries and even go to each other's schools. All countries can join, they can make agreements with the other countries.