One Belt
One Road
China’s colossal infrastructure investments massive Belt and Road Initiative will usher in a new era of trade and growth for economies in Asia and beyond.
One Belt One Road
China’s colossal infrastructure investments massive Belt and Road Initiative will usher in a new era of trade and growth for economies in Asia and beyond.
The Silk Road Economic Belt will foster global trade and economic development, with ‘Chinese characteristics’, at its heart One Belt, One Road (OBOR) stretching from Asia to Europe, it encompasses more than 60 countries, an economic roadmap explores the economic topography of seven global regions.
Each country has an economic profile: port facilities, air transport facilities, retail and distribution network, telephone network, road network, power network, rail network and IT infrastructure.
The original Silk Road arose during the westward expansion of China’s Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), which forged trade networks throughout what are today the Central Asian countries of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as modern-day India and Pakistan to the south. Those routes extended more than four thousand miles to Europe.
Central Asia was thus the epicentre of one of the first waves of globalization, connecting eastern and western markets, spurring immense wealth, and intermixing cultural and religious traditions. Valuable Chinese silk, spices, jade, and other goods moved west while China received gold and other precious metals, ivory, and glass products. Use of the route peaked during the first millennium, under the leadership of first the Roman and then Byzantine Empires, and the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) in China.
(OBOR) vision included creating a vast network of railways, energy pipelines, highways, and streamlined border crossings, both westward—through the mountainous former Soviet republics—and southward, to Pakistan, India, and the rest of Southeast Asia.
Making the Belt and Road family a big gathering of 150 countries and 32 international organisations. This marks a new high in international economic cooperation and serves as a new engine driving the development of all countries.
