On the occasion of the South Asia International Book Fair (November 2023), China-South Asia Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development Cooperation is being organised to mark the warm start-up of the 2nd golden decade of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Several reputed Nepali and Chinese agencies are joining hands to play respective role in managing knowledgeable deliverables of the Forum so important for our continuous Trans-Himalayan neighbourhood. Policy makers, experts, scholars and practitioners from South Asian countries and China are expected to participate in the Forum deliberations. After Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda’s recent visit to China and the 3rd BRI Cooperation Forum in Beijing, the BRI is much inclusively reshaped taking roots, adapting to the local geo-ecological and socio-economic needs and aspiration of the regional countries.