China'S Western Provinces Begin Rebuilding The Silk Road

At present, as the heart of the Eurasian continent, Central Asia has attracted a number of Central Asian regional economic cooperation mechanisms initiated by countries such as the United States, the European Union, China, and Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. Central Asia is also the first place to trade with China in history. The Silk Road Throughout Central Asia. As China's reform and opening up has entered the deep water area, the western provinces of China have begun rebuilding the Silk Road, pushing the western region to open to the outside world and starting the "engine" of the development of Western China's foreign trade.

In August this year, the State Council approved the establishment of the new Lanzhou area. The strategic positioning is to build a strategic platform for regional international exchanges for Central Asia and Western Asia. So far, many provinces in Northwest China have chosen their "open" to westward. Aside from the innate "border conditions" of Xinjiang, the Eurasian Economic Forum, as an important platform for exchanges and cooperation in the framework of the Shanghai cooperation organization, came to Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in 2001. The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, another inland province in the northwest region, also exerts its own advantages, and found the orientation of inland opening under the framework of cooperation between China and Arabia Union.

Zhang Jianjun, deputy director of the Institute of economic and social development of the Party School of Gansu provincial Party committee, said in an interview with reporters that China's opening to the west is to rebuild the "land Silk Road in twenty-first Century". The "world vision and strategic thinking" of Gansu, Lanzhou and Lanzhou new area is to firmly grasp this important historical opportunity, and cast the vision of open development and cooperative development to a broader Central Asia, Western Asia and even Europe, give full play to comparative advantages and establish close economic and trade relations, so as to form a win-win situation.

Professor Zhang Jianjun believes that Gansu The main passageway of the Silk Road, with nearly 1700 km of silk road traffic across the whole territory of Gansu, has the advantage of transportation comparable to Ningxia and Shaanxi. It is the main channel linking Xinjiang with the inland. Gansu is always a heavy industry oriented Province, and has a comparative advantage over Ningxia and Xinjiang in terms of petrochemical industry, non-ferrous metallurgy, equipment manufacturing, power and energy and so on. At the same time, Gansu is still an important province with deep accumulation of Chinese civilization, since ancient times, there are 55 provinces in 56 ethnic groups. As history

Professor Zhang Haiyang, director of the Western Development Research Center of Minzu University of China, told reporters: "since the beginning of this year, the concept of opening to the West has begun to rise to the level of national strategy, but the diversity of the nation and the diversity of culture will be new. silk One of the key factors of how far the road can go. The dual integration of the mainland and the frontier by the two long lines (the Great Wall and the long march route) is the biggest feature of China's history, culture and social structure. Historically, the western border of China has long been a window for the country to open to the outside world. China can not always focus on the "made in China" in the Middle East, but also start another engine, namely, to promote the development of the border area with new ways and mechanisms.