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China has made concerted efforts in recent years to construct highways in its western region. Weng Mengyong, vice minister of communications — the ministry responsible for land transportation — said that the total length of superhighway in the western region exceeded 7,000 kilometers as of the end of 2003, and would exceed 10,000 kilometers by the end of 2005.
In the country's northwest, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has a total of 86,000 kilometers of highways, according to the regional communications department.
The department reports that investment in highway construction has increased rapidly, from 3.0 billion yuan (US$360 million) in 2001 to 12.1 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) in 2004.
Xinjiang built a total of 6,500 kilometers of highways in rural areas last year, adding 257 villages to the region's highway networks and benefiting 2.5 million people.
In October 2004, a 4,395-kilometer-long major national highway linking the New Silk Road to the Asian highway network was completed. This reduced the travel time from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, to Lianyungang, a port city in eastern Jiangsu Province, from more than two weeks to just 50 hours.
During the next two decades, Xinjiang will be investing a total of 200 billion yuan (US$24.1 billion) to build up its major highway networks, culminating in what is called as the New Silk Road.
The total length of highways nationwide is now 1.9 million kilometers, and superhighways extend for some 34,200 kilometers.
(Xinhua News Agency, China.org.cn February 16, 2005)
NEW SILK ROAD PROJECT
Pakistan announces official support for New Silk Road being built by China
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan announced official support for News Silk Road being built by China. Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Masood Khan said that his country will be glad to see more “Silk Roads” being built in the region to ensure common development as well as peace, stability and prosperity for their people.
According to Pakistan’s Foreign Office, while discussing the prospect of reviving a trade route across the vast Eurasian land, at the ongoing second China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, Pakistan supports the on-going efforts to expand the silk roads.
Seventeen state-level open ports, two international airports and extensive roads and railways link the landlocked Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region, to the country’s neighbors to the west. The second cross-border railway between China and Kazakhstan has been linked up and the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan highway will soon be launched in full.
China’s New Silk Road is based on three main corridors across the Eurasian continent, called the Eurasian Land Bridge, which serves as the main arteries from which offshoot rails, highways, and pipelines will be built. The first one is the existing Trans-Siberian Railway running from Vladivostok in Eastern Russia to Moscow and connecting to Western Europe and Rotterdam; the second runs from Lianyungang port in Eastern China through Kazakhstan in Central Asia and onto Rotterdam; and the third runs from Pearl River Delta in Southeast China through South Asia to Rotterdam. This part one can call the emerging North-South corridor concept of India, Iran, and Russia. China has almost entered its second main arteries by connecting it with Kazakhstan via its expressway that China is calling the New Silk Road.
There is a major difference between the US-sponsored New Silk Road and the China project. China has totally left out Afghanistan from its project, thinking that this land will remain unstable, while the US project stands on the foundation of promoting Afghanistan and linking developments in South Asia and Central Asia through Afghanistan even at the expense of Tajikistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, India, and Turkmenistan. The United States is insisting Pakistan and India get natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan instead of getting natural gas from Iran through Pakistan to India. It is also insisting Pakistan get electricity from Tajikistan through Afghanistan. For the US, all roads lead to Kabul, but China plans for all roads to lead directly to Central Asia, leaving Afghanistan aside. The United States’ New Silk Road left out Iran due to obvious reasons, while the original Silk Road had Iran as its greatest component, with Afghanistan as on/off shoot of original Silk Road.
US Congress issued and updated The Silk Road Strategy Act to maintain US influence in Eurasia, while the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) released its concept of its Silk Road as a Eurasian Land Bridge connecting China to Europe across the Eurasian continent.
In the past, representatives from 40 countries participated in a two-day Ministerial Conference on Transport, sponsored by UNESCAP. China, Indonesia, Laos, Korea, Cambodia, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Iran, and others designed the 81,000 kilometer railway network linking 28 countries through tracks and ferry routes to boost Asia’s economic development and establish a direct route to European markets. The plan is to develop routes between Asian countries, then expand them to its central neighbors, and to Europe. This was actually a blueprint of the China New Silk Road.
In January 2008, China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Germany implemented the first corridor of the Eurasian Land Bridge and agreed to create conditions to pave the way for regular container train service between Europe and Asia. A demonstration container train dubbed “The Beijing-Hamburg Container Express,” carrying a load of Chinese goods, rolled out of one of the logistics bases of the China Railway Container Transport Corp Ltd.
The train covered 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) in 15 days, crossing China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, and Poland before arriving in Hamburg, Germany. By comparison, sea transport adds 10,000 kilometers to the journey through the Indian Ocean, and would have taken 40 days to ship goods from China to Germany – more than double the time to send trains through the Eurasian corridor. The original Silk Road also had the component of ferries, as does the New Silk Road of China.
Russia Warns China Invasion Of Middle East Nearer Than Thought
An apocalyptic report prepared by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov for President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Medvedev is warning that the strategic military agreementssigned between China and Pakistan signal that the“end game” between the East and West over the vital energy resources of the Middle East “has now begun.”
According to Minister Serdyukov, the most vital aspect of this new strategic agreement is the allowing by Pakistan for Chinese military forces to begin the“immediate use” of the Karakoram Highway which will allow China’s massive ground forces direct access to the Middle East and into direct confrontation with the West.
Important to note about the Karakoram Highway [aka China National Highway 314 and in Pakistan as N-35] is that it is the highest paved international road in the world stretching over 1,300 km (800 miles) without which China would have no direct access to the sub-continent.
Upon India’s learning about this new agreement it announced it would be spending $10 Billion to build 558 new roads along the Pakistan-Chinese border to ensure its own security, but which this report warns will not be completed soon enough to protect the West.
China’s “grand strategy” behind this new move, Minister Serdyukov’s report continues, is to join its ground forces with those of its air forces it has pre-placed in NATO member country Turkey, both of whom have been carrying out joint air defense exercises since last year much to the alarm of the United States and European Union.
Even more alarming to the West has been China’s air route for refueling its warplanes being readied for a Middle East war which include Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.
Minister Serdyukov further states in his report that China’s actions to protect its energy future based upon Middle East oil (of which it could not survive without) is its belief that the United States is about turn against Israel using the same type of United Nations maneuvering it used to launch attacks on Libya.
China’s fears are, apparently, being borne out as just hours ago, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands captured in previous wars is “morally, politically unsustainable” and former speaker of the US House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, further warned this past week that the United States under President Obama is “dominated by a secular, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish elite.”
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