Meanwhile, more than 200 young people from over 30 countries and regions participated in this year's Belt and Road competition, speaking on topics like "Healing The World" and "Is Cooperation Always More Powerful Than Competition?" Rutayisire Mahoro Dianah, 21, from Rwanda, claimed the second place with her critical thinking over the "dilemma" of cooperation versus competition. "Competition makes us faster but cooperation makes us better," she said. She expects "a world in which we can work together and collaborate to achieve a lot, but still have free will".