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This book is a collection of papers from the academic symposium "The Age of Discovery and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road". The book is divided into five topics, including "Zheng He's voyages to the West and the Belt and Road Initiative", "Historical Zheng He's voyages to the West and archeology", "Rethinking Zheng He's voyages to the West", and "The Age of Discovery and the Maritime Silk Road". The author of this book has assembled a group of well-known scholars in the fields of history, international trade, international finance, archaeology, etc. They have studied and analyzed the historical details of Zheng He's voyages to the West from various angles, from the macroscopic significance and impact to the mesoscopic examination of the route and scope of Zheng He's voyage, to the microscopic archaeology of Chinese porcelain in the places he visited, and finally, from the age of great navigation created by Zheng He, the historical inheritance and practical value of China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative are derived.