Russian sphere of influence. And of the near food end and she 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. If in the past the silk road was called the axis of the world if you control that road you control the world. A change president xi jinping has emphasized the great significance so chong ching for global and Asian Pacific logistics chongqing is to become a hub for inland logistics that will be open to the outside to. A phone call. Chunk 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 can tell us every day two of the chinese provinces and two other countries. Were responsible for the safety of these operations and their mom
made him on average a week three or four trains leaf a deuce in germany. Carrying around forty one can say. 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 simple 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 eldorado 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. Will. 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. A nice little journal the new silk road will fuel the Economy Culture and gus trami The City Of La as you will become more attractive as will be improvements of a dam soon will and the little of the last 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 its 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 for. 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 decline 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 highway. 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 ung 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. Go that route 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. Was 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. From the streets in living in a sign it 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 bows at the u. S. They are moving. And theres a lot of activity everywhere. Lights and even music and color okey vos images that are war teeth of it that i look at theres the x. Ray its a message to the chinese population it is to attract people to these remote areas that there was the privileged and so offensive. To make it possible for people to move to the remote province of shame 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 the room she is now at just ten hours down from forty. Five thats. The faster the better. Chance of. 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 root of the new silk road is among the newest its been in operation since Two Thousand And Fourteen. The high speed route to sheens young 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 connect shane jiang more closely to the rest of the country. And it also sends a message to neighboring states because china sees itself as of 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. But. 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. Attacks violent riots and economic and religious imbalances in 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 and change young 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 room 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. Action such as this model shows what our Economic Zones will look like when the project is complete. Since. This is how it will 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 our project in russia and kazakhstan Many Companies signal their interest in our Free Trade Zone it was easy because each
year. Modern machine jiang is having positive effects on the development along the new Silk Road Beijing wants to exploit this to prove its competence and experience in 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 voice will in the end Up On Chang Wind Farm inching jiang 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 feed. Its ideal for a wind farm five year issues of for me if i didnt see a reason that. The success of gold wind is a classic example of the chinese economic miracle. 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 wind 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. Sutra many sources of Renewable Energies along the entire new Silk Road Concession in kazakhstan or pakistan or even turkey which will be on the board a hospice
a time. Theres wind and solar energy everywhere it was out how the tail on the phone and thats the ensure fatal to. The real theory or yeah 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 and youre at. Once 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. Always alcohol at first glance the politics beyond the new silk road of the mock up she didnt pay heed that it strengthens his power and his reputation in the budget in the long
term it stands for it changing china is just what you see debates about those have been going on in economic circles since Two Thousand And Eleven she should say you are in this project will have consequences from far into the future and implementing it will take decades so yes this doesnt just affect she jinping when it affects your successes too much yet the machine hears you me now and i just know that she and. Her its another five hundred kilometers from the room she to the cars 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 he Sham Belmarsh she 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 die on what china is behind me almaty in kazakhstan is in front of me i might see to the left of me is kyrgyzstan and beyond it was becky stan i have russia to my
right called guss at the center between all of these countries this is where everything is happening. So ill just. And he shunned belmarsh 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 if theres any place that symbolizes the meeting of east and west its this one. That is all the while the chinese tracks and the behind me at. The kazakhs tracks start to my left back them up dont differ you see from here you can get to Beijing Shanghai Eon young gung and ningbo and from here you can get to see 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. Phobia could offset is it enough we mustnt forget that the border between the former soviet union and china ran 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 tolles it because golf is the starting point for a revival of the silk road wanted it 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 cosmic 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 court of course with the rest of the country. Yes i was heels of i have goods from china im heading to almaty ive been traveling since yesterday so now i have a flat tire i normally have to complete this stretch in a day. The chinese side is much better if i thought. Just very much the road is very good its well maintained there are no potholes why who knows it will improve here too. Also 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. For years dude but its most lorries that stop here have come through russia or europe we clean them before they head into china it appears it seems i can hear that were doing a good thing for people there are not many coal washes here. Most of the q. More of course in mali when the highway is open in the Old Country Road will probably be closed there wont be a single vehicle coming through here that i think i will be here another two or three years after that no cars will come through here it will be dead quiet first. Of. All this is seen with mixed feelings in the
villages through which the old road runs theyre hoping for a Better Future and are dubious about what will happen next. Im sure its not our president as a biased signed this contract with china theres already a functioning train a Freight Train that goes to it was just one look at that it would come out of that would it transports Raw Materials cars and all kinds of things to many other countries which just lastly just what are the few that fits all thats already po