What is even more astounding is that the 50-year-old, the oldest daughter of two farmers in east China's Jiangsu province, has never stayed in any of these luxury hotels before.

In sectors with which GE is most concerned, including energy, aviation and healthcare, developments have been astounding on both a macro scale and individual project basis.

Advances in the field of automation, such as the interactive robot Jia Jia, which was unveiled (last year by the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, capital of Anhui province), are truly astounding.

"It is our obligation and destiny to prove to the world China is capable of producing pens with astounding quality.

And the amount of data produced daily is growing at an astounding rate with estimates indicating that most of the world's data was generated in the last two years," said Siddharth Chatterjee, the UN resident coordinator in China.

Jin said it is gratifying to witness astounding achievements in the Belt and Road Initiative, from conceptualization to tangible results.