The New Eurasian Continental Bridge
2 min readIn ancient times, people used hinnies to transport silk to the west for sale, opening trade contacts between the east and the west. the continuous development of trade promoted cultural communication. Later, land route trade declined resulting from thebuilding of marine transport corridor. With radiation of the economy in east-central China to the west the continental bridge channel was revived The Soviet Union government built the first Eurasian Continental Bridge to transport the resources in Siberia. The first Eurasian Continental Bridge runs through Northern Asia, with Khabarovsk(habarask and vladivostok(haishenwai) as the starting points leads to all the countries in europe and eventually reaches port of Rotterdam through the longest railway in the world -Siberian Railway(its overall length is 9, 332km from Moscow to Vladivostok). It is also called Siberian Land Bridg The whole land bridge passes seven countries, including russia, China, Kazakhstan Belarus poland germany and the netherlands with an overall length of about 13000 km. It links the atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, bringing rapid economic development to the soviet Union.
The establishment of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge injected leap vigor tothe economy of Xinjiang. The New Eurasian Continental Bridge, also known as the Second Eurasian Continental Bridge”, is a railroad line through transport starting from Chinese ports, such as Lianyungang City in Jiangsu Province and rizhao city in Shandong Province, etc, to Rotterdam Port in the Netherlands, Antwerp in Belgium and other ports. The continental bridge goes beyond the frontier in Alataw Pass at th border between China and Kazakhstan, by way of more than 570 counties and cities of 89 cities and prefectures of 11 provinces and autonomous regions, including Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai, and Xinjiang. Main cities along the way in Chinese section include LianyungangXuzhou, Shangqiu, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Xi’ an, Lanzhou, and Urumqi, etc Outside the border, it reaches the rotterdam Port of the Netherlands through three routes. The center line is connected with Russian railways at Friendship Station, enters into Russian railway network and reaches Rotterdam Port of the Nether lands via qduya, Tselinograd, Kuibyshev, Smolensk, Brest, Warsaw, and Berlin, spreading to more than 30 countries and regions with an overall length of 10, 900km. the design of China-Kirghizstan-Uzbekistan railway manifests the development of Xinjiang continental bridge from simplification to diversification In words of Selleck, the second railway channel between China and Kazakhstan-Horgos railway which was opened up in December of 2012 gave merchants another choice of customs clearance Way.
