Sunday, April 08, 2007

 

Silk Road v.2.0

China is rebuilding the silk road.

They have discovered that trading with their neighbours is useful are beginning an ambitious project. The main artery is called Asian Highway is described in a guardian article:

Asian Highway One, will stretch more than 3,000 miles from Urumqi in China's north-west region of Xinjiang to Istanbul in Turkey. Once completed in 2010, its route will take it through areas rich with untapped resources, including Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and Mashhad in Iran. Eleven other roads will link Xinjiang to Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, the report said, citing the transportation department of China's north-western territory of Xinjiang.


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