THE SMART “SILK ROAD” INTERNATIONAL PROJECT
THE “SILK ROUTES” WEST-EAST INNOVATION CORRIDORS
FROM CHINA, JAPAN, AND INDIA TO RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA TO
EUROPE THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA HAS PROPOSED TO REVIVE THE SILK ROAD AT THE LAST SHANGHAI ORGANIZATION COOPERATION
SUMMIT IN DUSHAMBE, TAJIKISTAN.
THIS PRESENTATION IS OUTLINING THE KEY POINTS OF THE SMART SILK ROADS INVESTMENT PROGRAM. IT’S TO BE PROPOSED TO THE
CHINESE PRESIDENT VIA THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, THE NEW CHAIR OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION, AS WELL AS THE
NEW PRESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL AND EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EU, SEPTEMBER 2014
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GREAT SILK ROAD, OR SILK ROUTE: INTEGRATING STATES AND CULTURES
Ancient trade routes between China and the West, which carried people, goods, innovations and ideas
among different civilizations and cultures, as Rome, Levant, Persia, Central Asia, India, and China.
The Silk Roads were widely extending from Southern Europe and Levant through Arabia, Somalia, Egypt,
Persia, India and Java to reach China
the Silk Road was a key factor in the development of the civilizations of China, India, Persia, Rome, Central
Asia, Africa, Europe, and Arabia, providing political, economic and cultural interactions between the
civilizations and cultures.
The desire to restore the Silk Route was the main driving force behind New European Sea Routes.
The Silk Road represents a historical lesson of political, economic and cultural integration due to inter-
regional trades and cultural communications.
The political, cultural and economic unity of the New Silk Road may bring peace and progress for substantial
part of the world’s population, including the most unstable Middle East.
“The Silk Road boasts a 3-billion population and a market that is unparalleled both in scale and potential.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping
The Silk Road is aimed to create not just an economic trade route, but a community with “common interests,
fate, and responsibilities”, “mutual respect and mutual trust.
The Silk Road represents China’s visions for an interdependent economic and political community stretching
from East Asia to western Europe, or from the East to the West.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/world/newsilkway/index.htm
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THE SILK ROUTES: PAST AND FUTURE
The Old 6,400 km Silk Route, or a caravan tract, started
at Sian, China, following the Great Wall of China,
bypassing the Takla Makan Desert, going up the Pamirs,
Badakshan, crossing Afghanistan, and coming down to
the Levant to reach Europe, Rome, via the Med Sea.
In the west, the Silk Road reached its peak during the
time of the Byzantine Empire; in the Nile-Oxus section,
from the Sassanid Empire period to the Il Khanate
period; and in the sinitic zone from the Three Kingdoms
period to the Yuan Dynasty period.
The Great Silk Route reached its full blossom under its
creation, the Mongol Empire, which provisioned the
political unification of zones being previously loosely
connected by material goods and cultural relations.
Its political centers extended along the Silk Road as far
as:
Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia,
Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran,
Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea,
Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia.
Trade between East and West also developed via the
maritime sea route, across the Indian Ocean, between
Alexandria in Egypt and Guangzhou in China.
Source: Silk Road Article: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
The ancient overland Silk Route is currently partly exists as a
highway connecting China, Sinkiang Uighur Region, with
Pakistan.
Today, starting from Chongqing, a transportation hub in the west
of China, freight is able to rich Antwerp in Europe, passing in its
way Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany.
The UN planned to revive it as a trans-Asian highway. The
Eurasian Land Bridge is sometimes referred to as the "New Silk
Road".
Xi Jinping has come with a multiregional innovative initiative on
the latest Shanghai Organization Cooperation Summit in
Tajikistan to revive a Silk Route economic belt, proposing “to
open the strategic regional thoroughfare from the Pacific Ocean
to the Baltic Sea, and gradually move toward the set-up of a
network of transportation that connects Eastern, Western and
Southern Asia.”
The Silk Road is to be restored as a interconnected network of
sustainable transportation routes across the Asian continent
connecting east, south and west Asia with the Mediterranean
region, as well as north and northeast Africa and Europe and
Russia.
The whole idea is to restore the Great Eurasian Silk Roads as a
transmission channel of people and goods, ideas, beliefs and
inventions, knowledge and technologies, providing economic,
political, social, cultural and territorial unity for the regions and
states concerned.
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CHINA’S NEW SILK ROAD VISION
According to the map (return to the title page),
the land-based “New Silk Road” will begin in
Xi’an in central China before stretching west
through Lanzhou (Gansu province), Urumqi
(Xinjiang), and Khorgas (Xinjiang), bordering
Kazakhstan.
The Silk Road then runs southwest from Central
Asia to northern Iran before swinging west
through Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
From Istanbul, the Silk Road crosses the
Bosporus Strait and heads northwest through
Europe, including Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech
Republic, and Germany.
Reaching Duisburg in Germany, it swings north
to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
From Rotterdam, the path runs south to Venice,
Italy — where it meets up with the equally
ambitious Maritime Silk Road.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/05/chinas-new-
silk-road-vision-revealed/
The Maritime Silk Road will begin in Quanzhou in
Fujian province, and also hit Guangzhou
(Guangdong pronvince), Beihai (Guangxi), and
Haikou (Hainan) before heading south to the
Malacca Strait.
From Kuala Lumpur, the Maritime Silk Road heads
to Kolkata, India then crosses the rest of the
Indian Ocean to Nairobi, Kenya (the Xinhua map
does not include a stop in Sri Lanka, despite
indications in February that the island country
would be a part of the Maritime Silk Road).
From Nairobi, the Maritime Silk Road goes north
around the Horn of Africa and moves through the
Red Sea into the Mediterranean, with a stop in
Athens before meeting the land-based Silk Road in
Venice.
the Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road as met will
create a massive loop linking three continents.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/world/newsilkway/inde
x.htm
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THE SMART SILK ROADS: FROM SMART CHINA TO SMART EUROPE
Regional Innovation Corridors of the Smart Silk Road:
Smart Mobility Corridor, Intelligent Multimodal Transportation
(roads, motorways, railways, maritime and air links)
Intelligent Energy Corridor (Smart Oil/Gas Networks, Smart
Power Grids)
Future Internet Telecommunications Corridors
Sustainable Water Corridors
Innovative Industrial Corridors
Smart Economy Corridors (Trade, Commerce and Financing)
Smart Cities and Eco Communities Corridors
Sustainable States Zone (Smart Asia/Smart Europe)
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THE SILK ROADS SMART CORRIDORS: BRINGING SMART GROWTH, UNITY, PEACE AND SECURITY
THE SILK ROUTES SMART INNOVATION CORRIDOR is a mega infrastructure PROJECT covering
smart mobility multimodal routes from the East and the West, China, India and Japan to Central
Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, via the overland new silk routes, including Russian
Steel Railroads (the BAM-2 and TransSib Railways), as well as maritime silk routes.
Developing Smart Industrial Inter-Regional Zones spanning across the regional states from Asia
to Europe, the Project will see major redevelopment of States and Cities, Infrastructure,
Industry – including new smart cities and industrial clusters and rail, road, port, air transport
connectivity – in the regional states along the Smart Silk Routes of the Innovation Corridors
THE SILK ROUTES SMART INNOVATION CORRIDOR is to be conceived as an Asian-European
Model Innovation Corridors of international standards for smart states, innovative cities and
sustainable communities, advanced infrastructure and emerging technology industry.
The Smart Silk Routes Innovation Corridors are to augment and create social and physical and
digital infrastructure on the Route which is world class and will help spurring sustainable
development and smart economic growth of the regional states, cities and communities.
Model states and smart cities, future industry clusters, with top-of-the-line infrastructure would
be developed along the Routes to attract global investment.
Funding is mostly to come from the Chinese government, supported by the national funds of
the regional states and organizations, as well as the EU Global Development Funding Schemes.
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THE SMART SILK ROADS STATES: THE KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND PROSPECTS
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: http://www.sectsco.org/
Member-States: Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizia
Member-State Candidates: India, Pakistan and Iran
Observer-States: Afghanistan, Mongolia
Dialogue-Partners: Turkey, Sri Lanka, Belorussia
EU: Cyprus, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Spain
Prospective Middle-East States: Algeria , Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
Kurdistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Prospective Asian States: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan ,
Thailand, Turkmenistan, Vietnam
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THE SMART COMMUNITIES ALONG THE SMART SILK
ROADS: EUROPE, THE MIDDLE EAST, CENTRAL ASIA, RUSSIA, INDIA,
CHINA
SMART CITIES SILK ROADS
In China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia and
Europe, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, France, Germany
Smart City Corridors in China and India
Japan’s Smart City Platform (Future City
Initiative: http://futurecity.rro.go.jp/en/)
EU Smart Cities and Communities (the European
Commission launched the Smart Cities and
Communities European Innovation Partnership:
http://www.eu-smartcities.eu/)
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/urban-
europe
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-
cities-global-initiative
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-city-
global-initiative
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-
cities-global-initiative-brief
SMART STATES SILK ROADS
Smart China:
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-china
Smart Japan:
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-japan
Smart Russia:
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-
nations-global-initiative-russia
Smart Tajikistan:
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/i-tajikistan
Smart Kazakhstan:
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/ikazakhstan-
20142024
Smart Europe
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-
europe (i-Europe Platform and Smart Big Europe, i-
Germany, i-Britain, i-France, i-Italy, i-Spain)
Smart Asian States, Smart Middle-East States
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DELHI-MUMBAI INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR OF THE FUTURE SILK ROAD:
THE VALUE CASE OF SMART INDIA
Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor is a mega infrastructure of USD 90
billion, covering an overall length of 1483 KMs between the political
capital and the business capital of India, i.e. Delhi and Mumbai.
Developing an Industrial Zone spanning across six states in India,
the project will see major expansion of Infrastructure and Industry –
including industrial clusters and rail, road, port, air connectivity – in
the states along the route of the Corridor
Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor is to be conceived as a Model
Industrial Corridor of international standards with emphasis on
expanding the manufacturing and services base and develop DMIC
as the 'Global Manufacturing and Trading Hub'.
The Government is considering this ambitious project to establish,
promote and facilitate Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor to augment
and create social and physical infrastructure on the route which is
world class and will help spurring economic growth of the region.
The project incorporates Nine Mega Industrial zones of about 200-
250 sq. km., 15 Industrial Areas of about 100 sq.km., high speed
freight line, three ports, and six air ports; a six-lane intersection-free
expressway connecting the country’s political and financial capitals
and a 4000 MW power plant.
Several industrial estates and clusters, industrial hubs, with top-of-
the-line infrastructure would be developed along this corridor to
attract more foreign investment.
Funding is to come from the Indian government, Japanese loans,
and investment by Japanese firms and through Japan depository
receipts issued by the Indian companies.
http://delhimumbaiindustrialcorridor.com/
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HOW TO CONTACT US
Dr Azamat Abdoullaev, Director
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Smart Cities, Sustainable Nations, Intelligent Superpowers
“Smart Silk Road” International Project
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