The Revival of the Great Silk Road
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叶占·伊萨库洛夫(Yerzhan Issakulov)
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出版时间：2019年11月
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The Way to Build a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind:Volume 1, Volume 2——International Joint Study Report (No.6)
简 介：The Great Silk Road is a caravan road that in the ancient and middle ages connected Asia with Europe, due to which peoples of these two continents freely traded and communicated with each other for one and a half thousand years. Therefore, it remains in the memory of humanity as an outstanding achievement. The decline of the Silk Road in the 16th century is primarily associated with the development of merchant shipping.
Only at the beginning of the 21st century, this unique experience of mutually beneficial trade was revived thanks to the political will and wisdom of modern leaders of states, who have constructed a new Silk Road through their territory from Pacific Ocean in the East to the Mediterranean Sea in the West.
Kazakhstan and its leader, N.Nazarbayev play a special role in this activity. Thus, after the collapse of the Soviet Union Kazakhstan did not have access to world markets. The first President of Kazakhstan, knowing the unique geographical location of his country and its geopolitical significance in the era of globalization, began to prepare for new conditions of international economic cooperation by reviving the traditions of the ancient Great Silk Road. In a short time he managed to reach an agreement with the leaders of China, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Iran on the development of transnational transportation between Europe and Asia, implemented large-scale transport infrastructures within the country: built a Western China-Western Kazakhstan highway with a length of 2,700 km; Alashankou railroad through Kazakhstan to Europe; expanded the seaport of Aktau; introduced the new Kuryk seaport on the Caspian coast; the Khorgos land port on the Kazakh-Chinese border and new railway lines that connected southern Kazakhstan through Almaty and southern cities with Europe, and Western Kazakhstan with Iran. In addition, Kazakhstan had a strategic task to create its own logistics base in China, where sea and land transportation routes would converge. The port of Lianyungang became an ideal springboard for this purpose, and not only because of its geographical location, but it was also a pioneer among Chinese ports on the shipment of containerized cargo to the countries of Central Asia. However, only Kazakhstan could receive its own terminal at this transport and logistics facility that is strategically important for the entire region. This was due to the foreign policy ties brilliantly built by the top leadership and carefully designed programs of infrastructure development of two states; these two premises jointly launched the historical process of reconstructing the Great Silk Road.
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