Transcripts For DW DocFilm - Silk Road 2.0 - Chinas Way To T

Transcripts For DW DocFilm - Silk Road 2.0 - Chinas Way To The Top 20180817

Like say don 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. 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 you didnt see. Me show before its all going joshing. Father and. Son jaguar corps well known qayyum trunks in the film was. Holcombe fair shot such a whole shitload that trisha fall for you and. The void and meaning 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. The minivan and 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. Bloody near putin and the xi jinping regularly affirm 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. 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 chung xing is chinas largest urban area. Few people in the west have actually heard of chang xing but this megacity 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 kwong cherilyn shenzhen chong xing 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 changing can now boast the growth rate in double figures. That our laptops are launching he produced in chongqing the one doc company has three factories interim chain with around fifteen thousand employees. His factory has three thousand two hundred employees. We mainly produce a select ops the people. Here feel is that the laptops you buy in france and germany are all produced a. Body they made those judgments 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. It was holtons a change president xi jinping has emphasized the great significance of chung ching for global and Asian Pacific logistics chunking is to become a hub for inland logistics that will be open to the outside to. Follow. Chung shing has a clear directive to turn away from the sea and look west. Thats also symbolized by kilometers zero 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. As well and were responsible for the safety of these operations and there are many here. Every week three or four trying sleep could do spin in germany and workers are. 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 his 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. Miller. Wild west of huge expansion and one that was left behind by the Economic Reforms of the past twenty years. The city of long 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. The shorter look the new silk road will fuel the economy culture and got stronger me the city of leisure will become more attractive as will be improvements of dams. And little of the less one sit on the new silk road is a collective and therefore political project thats very promising and was muck and whod have thought 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 one. Of 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 sheens 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. Go that route they come from all over the country from change on shape john shanghai. Beijing and hes from the northeast were in a favorable transport location which is good for business in every regard. 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 the venous 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 at the u. S. Theyre moving. And theres a lot of activity everywhere. Lights and even music and color okey vos images that are war teeth of it or get this from the x. Ray its a message to the chinese population is to attract people to these remote areas of the earth a preview trying to find something. To make it possible for people to move to the remote province of change young 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. Thats. Such. A 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 cian 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 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 High Speed 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. 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 inching jiang our 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 was this model shows what our Economic Zone 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 presume to down project in russia and kazakhstan Many Companies signal their interest in our free trade zone iraqis he told us ya. Modern shing 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 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 will in the end up 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 on the deep. Its ideal for a wind farm five yet issues of only 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 as the biggest maker of Wind Turbines in the world. At a time when the Energy Market is in a state of completely unpressed. Then to transition his business is perfectly placed. To lose the true many sources of Renewable Energies along the entire new silk road concession in kazakhstan or pakistan or even turkey which will be on the court because the time. Theres wind and solar energy everywhere the magick without have to pay on the phone and thats the end sure feel to. Have no pity 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 in europe. Or. 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. Powers out on the hill 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 its like a good budget in the long term it stands for it changing china it just lets you see debates about this 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 to yank and this doesnt just affect she jinping it affects his successes to actually end the machine he has unique else and i just know that she and. Her its another five hundred kilometers from whom she to the cars uk border. The border town of course 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 began. Here the new silk. Road is still a construction site but just three years after she ging pings proclamation the continuation of the chinese road is easy to imagine peace shamble mushy 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 they are model 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 its called gosss at the center between all of these countries this is where everything is happening. 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 is. That is why the chinese tracked and behind me at. The cash tracks start to my left like it ima go to pieces from here you can get to beijing shanghai eon young young 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 and 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. Yes the monk them. For both of you could offset is it enough 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 coal gas is the starting point for a revival of the silk road wanted it to settle on its own as it all does 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 a 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 world road connecting court of course with the rest of the country. As i was also of get i have goods from china im heading to almaty ive been travelling 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 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 on the steps. But for some the new silk road is l

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