President Xi Jinping will host 28 world leaders and representatives from another 70 countries to sell his hugely ambitious signature project.
The plan is to build a vast network of new trade routes across the globe, multiple high-speed rail networks to penetrate Europe, massive ports across Asia and Africa and a series of free-trade zones.
China is going to spend up to a trillion dollars on infrastructure projects and hopes to bind more than 65 countries and two thirds of the world's population to its economy.
Economists have likened the project to a modern day Marshall Plan which helped secure the US as the world's superpower after World War II but it's much bigger.
China's aim is to lift trade by $2.5 trillion in a decade by flooding world markets with cheap, high-quality Chinese goods.
Opinions on a China led world order / Marshall Plan versus an American one.
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