China to rebuild ancient Silk Road

President Xi Jinping’s $1 trillion plan – known as One Belt, One Road – will see two trade routes to Europe. The plan will bind China’s economy to 60 countries, home to 4.4 billion people, half the world’s population

Government funds invested in Belt and Road project

$890bn. China Development Bank

$50bn China-based AIIB

$40bn. Silk Road Fund

$10bn. New Development Bank

Rotterdam NETHERLANDS

Venice ITALY

Athens GREECE

Nairobi KENYA

Moscow

Istanbul TURKEY

Tehran IRAN

Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN

Gwadar PAKISTAN

Colombo SRI LANKA

Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA

RUSSIA

Samarkand UZBEKISTAN

Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN

Almaty / KAZAKHSTAN

Urumqi

CHINA Guangzhou

Xian

Fuzhou

Beijing

Kolkata INDIA

Hanoi VIETNAM

Jakarta INDONESIA

Silk Road Economic Belt

Maritime Silk Road

Belt and Road projects

1 Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway: $375m, 770km line is first stretch of 7,000km high-speed rail link to Beijing

2 Khorgos Gateway: Cargo hub on China-Kazakh border will handle one million containers per year

3 Tehran rail line: First freight train from China arrived in Tehran in February 2016

4 China-Pakistan highway: Under construction at cost of $46 billion. “Economic corridor” between China and Pakistan will link China to port of Gwadar on Arabian Sea

Sources: Xinhua, Forbes, Financial Times, Spiegel

Picture: Associated Press