Smart World Great Silk Road China, India, Central Asia, Middle East, Russia, Europe

1. 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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2. 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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3. 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.
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-silk-road
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4. 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/index.htm
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable- nations-global-initiative
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9. 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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10. HOW TO CONTACT US
Dr Azamat Abdoullaev, Director
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