Director Barry Jenkins Braden Smith Youth Jersey , whose movie Moonlight won this year's best picture Oscar, is writing and directing a drama for Amazon based on a prize-winning novel about escaping from slavery.
The Underground Railroad will be adapted from the book of the same name by novelist Colson Whitehead. The novel has sold over 825,000 copies and won a National Book Award, one of the US' most prestigious literary prizes.
Inspired by the historic secret network of routes that allowed slaves to reach freedom in the North in the 18th century, the novel tells the story of young African American Cora's escape from a Georgia plantation.
She finds not a metaphorical but an actual railroad in operation beneath Southern soil.
Jenkins, 37 Darius Leonard Youth Jersey , said he was excited to be working with such rich literary material.
"Colson's writing has always defied convention, and The Underground Railroad is no different," the director said in a statement Monday.
"It's a groundbreaking work that pays respect to our nation's history while using the form to explore it in a thoughtful and original way," Jenkins said, praising "the sweep and grandeur" of the novel's narrative.
Amazon, which is developing the series Quenton Nelson Youth Jersey , has not given a release date for the drama, which is slated for production by the firms Pastel and Plan B, a company owned by Hollywood star Brad Pitt.
BOAO, China, March 26 (Xinhua) -- China's Belt and Road Initiative is doing a key job in restructuring the global production value chain amid profound changes in the post-crisis world, agreed government and business leaders attending an forum here for promoting cooperation across Asia.
Traditional international investment and trade structure is undergoing a readjustment T.Y. Hilton Youth Jersey , they said during the annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia held in south China's Hainan province.
Dwindling investment from the developed world and the rich countries' focus on rebooting their own manufacturing industry will result in sluggish trade and production around the world.
Pessimists are talking about the end of globalization. However, scholars are pointing to a new type of globalization that will be driven more by the East than the West.
ENHANCED INTER-CONNECTIVITY, BETTER COOPERATION
"Opening-up" has been a catch phrase by Chinese officials for quite a few decades. While sticking to its pledge for common development and shared prosperity with the rest of the world, China is pressing ahead with its supply-side structural reform.
The painstaking job promises to optimize China's growth mode and economic structure, enabling it to turn out better products and services for cooperative partners along the ancient trade routes, analysts said.
More than 30 years of opening up and rapid development since China adopted the policy of reform and opening to the outside world in 1978 have lifted China into the status of the world's second largest economy Andrew Luck Youth Jersey , Dong Wenbiao, chairman of China Minsheng Investment Group, told a special session on the Belt and Road Initiative in Boao.
It is transforming from a manufacturing powerhouse to a country stressing more on high-tech-led progress, said Dong, adding that "We hope to share our experience with the rest of the world, and the Belt and Road Initiative is a pilot project of such endeavors."
Proposed in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping T.J. Green Womens Jersey , the Belt and Road Initiative comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and is aimed at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes.
The initiative has so far gained the support of over 100 countries and international organizations, and more than 40 of them have signed cooperation agreements with China.
According to Dong, Chinese investors attach great importance to training of local people, especially in less developed regions, in realization of the Belt and Road Initiative. The trainees include not only senior managers Marlon Mack Womens Jersey , but also technicians and other workers.
"The Belt and Road Initiative is a very encouraging vision. Companies in Singapore welcome this initiative and they are very ready to help realize this vision," said Ann Sim, Senior Minister of the State of Singapore.
Sim said she can not think of a better example than the third government-to-government project between China and Singapore, or the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative (CCI), as a demonstration project within the framework of this initiative.
The CCI, after the launch of two government-led projects Tarell Basham Womens Jersey , the Suzhou Industrial Park in 1994 and the Tianjin Eco-City 2008 respectively, has demonstrated Singapore's support and dedication to the Belt and Road Initiative. It enhances the link between Chongqing and the rest of China, and with Southeast Asia in terms of transportation, finance and development of high technology.
"A strong connectivity is important for any country that is open to free trade," she said.
Portuguese Economy Minister Manuel Caldeira Cabral said his country is not only interested in Chinese investment in the energy and financial sectors, but also believes this investment has opened a door for China to reach deeper into Europe.
"Considering the special status and geographical position of Portugal Nyheim Hines Womens Jersey , Chinese investment here also creates a platform for bringing the Belt and Road Initiative into Latin America and Africa," the minister was upbeat when talking about the strategy during the Boao forum.
GLOBALIZATION 2.0
The type of globalization is changing largely because of the rise of China
and the "globalization 2.0" is more about investment, infrastructure and
development rather than just trade in the old times, said Amitav Acharya, writer
of the popular book "The End of American World Order" in a recent interview
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