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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