On September 25, 2016, international conference on Developing the Synergy Between the Belt and Road Initiative and 16+1 Cooperation was held at SIIS. Overseas scholars from Central and East European countries think tanks and Chinese experts from the China Institute of International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Tongji University, East China Normal University etc. participated in the conference. They had a discussion on the retrospect and prospect, bilateral dimension, and multilateral dimension of 16+1 Cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative. Prof. Yang Jiemian, Chairman of Academic Affairs Council, SIIS and Mr. Zarko Obradovic, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia gave opening and closing remarks for the conference.