A STUDY ON SPACE: CHINA’S SILK
ROAD ECONOMIC BELT AND THE
21ST-CENTURY MARITIME SILK ROAD
RESHAPING ASIA BY CREATING A
TRANSCONTINENTAL ECONOMIC CORRIDOR?
ANDREAS LIOUMPAS, MA
RESHAPING
CHINA
CHINA’S 13TH
FIVE YEAR PLAN
“A man who does not think and
plan long ahead will find trouble
right at his door.”
Confucius
CHINA’S
DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
2016-2020
Focus on economic development at ALL levels
I.
II. Address TWO weak links
•
The imbalance of development between regions
•
The imbalance of development between ethnic groups
III. Establish THREE new stances
IV. Develop FOUR key region
I.
Belt and Road
• Follow FIVE principles of development
• Implement 10 development strategies
THE IMBALANCE OF DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN
REGIONS
OBOR AS A DOMESTIC STRATEGY
RESHAPING ASIA
CHINA AS
REGIONAL
LEADER
RESHAPING ASIA – TRANSFORMING THE
WORLD
RESHAPING ASIA BY INTERGRATING
INSTITUTIONS
RESHAPING ECONOMY: INVOLVED
COUNTRIES
RESHAPING ECONOMY: THE ECONOMIC
CORRIDORS THAT WILL CHANGE ASIA
THE NEW EURASIA LAND BRIDGE ECONOMIC
CORRIDOR
• An international railway line running
from Lianyungang in China’s Jiangsu
province through Alashankou in
Xinjiang to Rotterdam in Holland
• China section of the line comprises
the Lanzhou-Lianyungang Railway
and the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway
and stretches through eastern,
central and western China.
• After exiting Chinese territory, the
new land bridge passes through
Kazakhstan
THE CHINA-MONGOLIA-RUSSIA ECONOMIC
CORRIDOR
• September 2014, the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Dushanbe Summit
• July 2015, Ufa. Official adoption of
the Mid-term Roadmap for
Development of Trilateral Cooperation between China, Russia and
Mongolia.
• tripartite co-operation on the basis of
China-Russia, China-Mongolia and
Russia-Mongolia bilateral ties.
CHINA-CENTRAL ASIA-WEST ASIA ECONOMIC
CORRIDOR
• The corridor mainly covers five
countries in Central Asia (Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan) as well as Iran and
Turkey in West Asia.
• The national development strategies of
the five Central Asian countries share
common ground with the establishment
of the Silk Road Economic Belts
• Kazakhstan’s “Road to Brightness”,
• Tajikistan’s “Energy, Transport and
Food” (a three-pronged strategy aimed
at revitalising the country)
• Turkmenistan’s “Strong and Happy Era”
CHINA-INDOCHINA PENINSULA ECONOMIC
CORRIDOR
• in December 2014, Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang put forward three suggestions with
regard to deepening the relations between
China and the five countries in the
Indochina Peninsula. The suggestions
included:
• (1) to jointly planning and building an
extensive transportation network, as well as
number of industrial cooperation projects;
• (2) creating a new mode of co-operation for
fundraising
• (3) promoting sustainable and co-ordinated
socio-economic development
• Currently, the countries along the Greater
Mekong River are engaged in building nine
cross-national highways, connecting east
and west and linking north to south.
CHINA-PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR
• April 2015: joint declaration issued by China
and Pakistan in Islamabad
• advance key co-operation projects
• upgrade and renovation of the Karakoram
Highway
• an expressway at the east bay of Gwadar
Port,
• a new international airport,
• an expressway from Karachi to Lahore (the
Multan-Sukkur section)
• the Lahore rail transport orange line,
• the Haier-Ruba economic zone, and
• the China-Pakistan cross-national optic fibre
network
BANGLADESH-CHINA-INDIA-MYANMAR ECONOMIC
CORRIDOR
• In December 2013, the BangladeshChina-India-Myanmar Economic
Corridor Joint Working Group
convened its first meeting in Kunming
• reached extensive consensus on cooperation in such areas as
• transportation
• infrastructure,
• investment and commercial
circulation,
• people-to-people connectivity
BUILDING RELATIONS OF COOPERATION
AND STABILITY
BELT AND ROAD NETWORK
CONCLUSION