Click save is situated in chinas far west on the border with central asia for centuries this Mountain Lake was a strategic transit point along the legendary silk road that ran between europe and the chinese empire. For the nomads living around the lake the opening of the new silk road is in some ways history repeating itself. Trucks have replaced the caravans of the past on the newly built highway and. The ambitious project was launched by chinese president xi jinping during a visit to kazakhstan in two thousand and thirteen. Remission only arc of what things you didnt see. Me show before its all. Father and. Jaguar haw well known kay young transhuman of them was. Hold on jerusha such hold gentle back trisha fall for you and. Your body to me that. The new silk road planned by xi jinping runs for ten thousand kilometers on road and on rail it crosses western china kazakhstan russia and will run all the way to europe its a huge construction site. But what are chinas true intentions behind this mega project. Limited by the idea in my opinion this project will change the development of the economy and society but it will definitely have long term geopolitical implications to judea. And. The new silk road crosses central asia the russian sphere of influence. All of the near putin than the xi jinping regularly affirmed their geo Strategic Alliance but this new chinese project could have a massive impact on the relationship between the two countries and in the long term it could do the same to the power balance in the whole of eurasia. Group in the past the silk road was called the axis of the world if you control that road you control the world. China has. Chosen the city of chang xing as the starting point for its new silk road. With a population of around thirty five million almost as many as beijing and shanghai combined shown showing is chinas largest urban area. Few people in the west have actually heard of chong xing but this mega city on the young sea river is a symbol of the economic boom the country has been experiencing for the past thirty years. While growth is tapering off in the Major Industrial centers of long show and shenzhen shown shing is proving every day a new that its one of the future engines of chinas economic development. Growth has long been based on heavy industry with cheap labor from the countryside. But in recent years the megacity has put all its Energy Behind the giants of the electronics industry. Thanks to this transformation junction can now boast a growth rate in double figures. And thats all our laptops are launched he produced in chongqing the one doc company has three factories in china chain with around fifteen thousand employees feel this factory has three thousand two hundred employees. We mainly produce a select ops of people. A good feeling that the laptops you buy in france and germany are all produced a. Body they made at all those documents and. On their journey from chung xing to europe the computers have to to travel. Thousand kilometers over land to reach the coast then theyll be at sea for at least a month on the South China Sea the strait of malacca and the suez canal. But in practice two months often go by between the time a computer emerges from the factory in china and is sold in europe. That gave rise to the idea of reviving the Overland Route of the silk road that once ran through western China Central asia and russia. The shortening of the transport period isnt the only goal of this new silk road tensions are growing in the South China Sea between beijing and its neighbors taiwan japan and the philippines and even with the unpredictable United States of donald trump an alternative route is becoming vital for china. A change president xi jinping has emphasized the great significance of chong ching for global and Asian Pacific logistics chong ching is to become a hub for inland logistics that will be open to the outside to. Follow quality. Junk shing has a clear directive to turn away from the sea and look west. Thats also symbolized by kilometers erode which marks the starting point of the new silk road. In order to supply this new route to the west with goods the city has built logistics facilities to replace the container ports on the coast. At this central freight terminal we send around a thousand contain us every day to other chinese provinces and to other countries. And were responsible for the safety of these operations are made here on every week three or four trains leaf a deuce in germany workers are. Carrying around forty one can take. The for us sounds on. The electronic goods loaded on to the trains here arrive in germany after just twelve days instead of traveling eight weeks by sea. However transporting goods by rail costs twice as much two hundred and fifty trains like this one are necessary to carry the same volume as a single container ship. At the moment this train to germany has more of a symbolic significance but its a symbol thats important to a china thats looking west not least to put a convincing case for xi jinping this project to both the domestic audience and chinas Economic Partners with european elderado as its end point the new silk road that travels through china for more than two thousand five hundred kilometers will also help develop the countrys infrastructure or so its hoped. This new transport route that combines road and rail will connect and boost regions in western china beyond long joe. Wild west of huge expansion and one that was left behind by the Economic Reforms of the past twenty years. The city of london joel is the gateway to chinas wide open west here the new silk road is taking on the characteristics of a marshall plan. The new oversized neighborhoods empty as yet suggest affluence. Between the life size replicas of the sphinx and the parthenon the governments propaganda is regurgitated by all. Lying i seriously torture law the new silk road will fuel the economy culture and got strong to me the city of leisure will become more attractive as will be proven. And the little did us one sit on the new silk road is a collective and therefore a political project thats very promising was a knock on the ball in light of the stagnating Economic Growth that official figures say at seven percent but in reality its four percent the Chinese Government needs a new impulse to prove that its in control of this major project or. The the worlds second largest economy china is in reality a colossus with feet of clay and threatened by uncontrolled social developments. Only an economic Success Story benefiting the entire country can keep it together. But this growth is based on the export of products that are made in china and these seriously declined since the Global Economic squeeze china has to change its economic model and that means it has to develop its. Mastic market last it has to invest in the infrastructure needed to promote the exchange of goods in just ten years china has built eighty thousand kilometers of highways. The rural road network in the east is impressive but to open up the market to the west there is just one possible route between the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau and the gobi desert. Thats exactly where the new silk road runs. Its a unique transport link and indispensable when it comes to connecting the province of shinji young which means new border to the rest of the country in the arid semi desert expanses of western china beijing and the Central Government were always very far away. But today the new silk road is creating change its altering the concept of time and ultimately it will change the lives of the people here. Feel that they come from all over the country from sheen john chait john shanghai. Beijing and even from the northeast were in a favorable transport location which is good for business in every regard. Just ten years ago we were still in our home village but we moved to the city to make money when the Economic Reforms came. Home regionally did in unison china is undergoing a radical shift particularly in the west of the country and inching jang all these cities being built in the desert are cities with skies great those are the numerous theyre moving. And theres a lot of activity everywhere. Lights and even music and coyote vasu its in the car ward he is of it i was at this. Its a message to the chinese population is to attract people to these remote areas of the us the privileged and so and so. To make it possible for people to move to the remote province of shin jiang or to trade their beijing has extended its high speed train along the entire new highway. The travel time for the two thousand kilometers between lunch show and room she is now at just ten hours down from forty. Five thats. The first that. Such as. China now possesses the largest High Speed Rail Network in the world with a length of twenty thousand kilometers three hundred billion dollars was invested in ten years that corresponds to almost the entire annual budget of a country like france. The route of the new silk road is among the newest its been in operation since two thousand and fourteen. The high speed route to sheen jiang swallowed a lot of money and itll never be Cost Effective but for beijing the benefit lies elsewhere firstly its political because this route really affirms the desire to connection jiang more closely to the rest of the country. And it also sends a message to neighboring states because china sees itself as the builder of an International HighSpeed Network to run from russia to central asia and iran. The route currently ns at the cutting edge Railway Station in odum cheek the provincial capital the station has very strict security measures in place. And. Thats because she is not a conventional chinese province there are frequent tensions between the leaders the local Muslim Minority and the han chinese who make up the vast majority of the population in the rest of the country. And attacks violent riots and economic and religious imbalances the region combines all the ingredients for a highly explosive Cocktail Police roadblocks and military checkpoints secure the new silk road here with strict controls. Moscow. Beijing believes the two cornerstones of peace inching jiang are domestic security and massive Growth Without peace this province cannot become a springboard for chinese interests in central asia with the support of the government the plan is for whom she to become a Regional Center every two years a large trade fair is held to promote the new silk road. The stands are all tailored to attracting visitors from neighboring countries and all dutifully recite the official text to sell the chinese dream. Which. Yes this model shows what our Economic Zones will look like when the project is complete. Since. This is how itll be done its our goal to get businesses from the five countries of central asia that surround us to come here at the start of the year we presented down project in russia and kazakhstan Many Companies signalled their interest in our free trade zone it was easy to get ya. Modern machines young is having positive effects on the development along the new silk road beijing wants to exploit this to prove its competence and experience and building up the infrastructure Economic Zones and the Important Energy sector. To do that Big Chinese Companies are needed such as gold wind the number one when it comes to wind energy gold wind is run by will guns. And there will missions that course were in the drop on chang wind farm inching junk its one of the best wind farms in the world its twenty to thirty kilometers wide and eighty kilometers long i should say the special thing about this place is its constant wind speeds feet around of and. Its ideal for a wind farm five year issues of only if i didnt see reason that. The success of gold wind is a classic example of the chinese economic miracle move is a pioneer who built his first Wind Turbines thirty years ago he bought a German Company which resulted in a cleverly negotiated transfer of Technology Today gold. And is the biggest maker of Wind Turbines in the world. At a time when the Energy Market is in a state of completely unprecedented transition his business is perfectly placed. To loose a true many sources of green yuval energies along the entire new silk road in kazakhstan or pakistan or even turkey which will be on the border hazardous attack dog or. Theres wind and solar energy everywhere the geo quiz out how to pay on the phone thats fatal to. Pull the rope in your yard developing wind energy further costs a lot of money the chinese plan on a completely different scale weve seen that with their solar panels everythings big. They have a real Strategic Vision were lacking that in europe. One things clear long term strategies are easier to implement if youre an authoritarian stable government. The new silk road follows in the long tradition of a planned economy pursued by chinas communist party. Our health and well at first glance the politics behind the new silk road have the mark of xi jinping in that it strengthens his power and his reputation in the budget in the long term it stands for a changing china just what she dates about those have been going on in the economic circles since two thousand and eleven she should say to our this project will have consequences and far into the future and implementing it will take decades so yeah this doesnt just affect she jinping when it affects his successes to actually get them a g. P. S. Unit now when i just know that she and. Her its another five hundred kilometers from room she to the cause a border. The border town of quarter goss is situated at the end of the highway. Goss has an old custom station and riders who arent fazed by anything. But china wants to give its new image a visual representation in the form of a huge arch under which the new silk road will soon run. Beyond this triumphal arch is kazakhstan thats where the International Dimension of the chinese project begins. Here the new silk. Road is still a construction site but just three years after she jingping this proclamation the continuation of the chinese road is easy to imagine shannon bell machine is one of the main players in this ongoing project hes a frenchman of moroccan origin and an employee of d. P. World a group of Companies Based in dubai and one of the worlds leading logistics organizations i am while china is behind me almaty in kazakhstan is in front of me a mighty to the left of me is kyrgyzstan and beyond it was becky stan i have russia to my right called gosss at the center between all of these countries this is where everything is happening. And he shambled much she works for the cause a government which is hoping to get a lot out of the new silk road. Its a road that could turn this middle of nowhere into an outpost of globalization. Zero and on the often so if theres any place that symbolizes the meeting of east and west its this one city. That is on the table while the chinese tracks and behind me at. The kazakhs tracks start to my left like you did one dont defeat from here you can get to beijing shanghai eon young young and ningbo and from here you can get to almighty a stana russia and europe. In quarter goes the chinese containers are loaded onto cars a Freight Trains which run on a narrower gauge the russian gauge a leftover of the soviet era from here the goods can reach anywhere in central asia home to a number of countries the size of europe with a population of just seventy million kazakhstan is the big. Just among them. Football be it could be said that often we mustnt forget that the border between the former soviet union and china run along here for a very long time there was almost no contact between the two countries if the border was closed thanks to the new infrastructure a lot of passengers and goods will come through here on it on the way to target the cole goss is the starting point for a revival of the silk road wanted to settle in its all that all of the us for. The new silk road still under construction in kazakhstan once complete it will cross the entire country over a distance of two thousand four hundred kilometers the construction work is largely being paid for with loans issued by the world bank but also by china itself via its new silk road fund. Thats a state fund running to more than forty billion dollars this new strategy has allowed china to enter the exclusive club of major creditor nations. Until the new silk road opens and china arrives the cossacks steps still live in the old world a world that dates back to soviet times a world that has been governed by president not out of by with an iron fist for the past twenty five years he recently called the new silk road the project of a century. Nothing has changed here since the fall of the soviet union especially not the old rural road connecting cord goss with the rest of the country. As i was of get i have goods from china im heading to al maty ive been travelling since yesterday now i have a flat tire. I normally have to complete this stretch in a day. The chinese side is much better at that im. Just very much feel that the road is very good its well maintained there are no potholes why who is it will improve here to. Launch of birth of my. News of the imminent opening of the highway is spreading slowly in the step. But for some the new silk road is likely to be bad news. 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