The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (The Belt and Road,or B&R) Initiative was proposed by China's President Xi Jinping in 2013, which aimed to enhance connectivity and deliver benefits between Asia, Europe and Africa. The signing countries were called B&R countries. In 2015, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank(AIIB) was founded with aim of supporting B&R initiative,so the member countries of AIIB were also considered as B&R countries.
The partial list of being considered B&Rcountries is as follows:
| Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | Belarus | Bangladesh | Bahrain |
| Bhutan | Brunei | Bulgaria | Cambodia | Canada | China | Cyprus |
| Czech | Denmark | East Timor | Egypt | Estonia | Fiji | Finland |
| France | Germany | Georgia | Hungary | Iceland | Ireland | India |
| Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Italy | Jordan | Kazakhstan |
| Korea | Kuwait | Kyrgyz | Lao | Latvia | Lebanon | Lithuania |
| Macedonia | Madagascar | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Morocco | Myanmar |
| Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | Norway | Oman | Pakistan | Philippines |
| Poland | Portugal | Qatar | Romanian | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Serbia |
| Singapore | Slovakia | South Africa | Spain | Sri Lanka | Sweden | Switzerland |
| Tajikistan | Thailand | Turkey | Turkmenistan | UAE | UK | Ukraine |
| Uzbekistan | Vietnam |
