Abstract : The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road aims to enhance China-ASEAN maritime cooperation and forge closer ties within a neighborhood of a shared future. It calls for joint efforts across the region and beyond. Get extra information about 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Aerial photo taken on Sept. 1, 2019 shows the China-Maldives Friendship Bridge in Maldives. The China-Maldives Friendship Bridge, the very first cross-sea bridge in the Maldives constructed by a Chinese company connecting the Maldivian capital of Male with neighboring Hulhule Island, was inaugurated on Aug. 30, 2018 and place into use on Sept. 7, 2018. The 2-km-long bridge is definitely an iconic project on the Maldives and China in co-building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The bridge makes it probable for locals and tourists to travel amongst the two islands inside five minutes. In one year, the bridge has brought terrific comfort for local people in their daily life. (Photo by Wang Mingliang/Xinhua)
-- 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Formed throughout the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-AD 220), the Maritime Silk Road has usually played an important function in financial and cultural exchanges and integration in between East and West. And Southeast Asia has usually been a nexus of this interaction. Around the occasion of the 10th Anniversary with the China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership, China proposed jointly developing a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road on October 3, 2013. The initiative aims to enhance China-ASEAN maritime cooperation and forge closer ties within a neighborhood of a shared future. It calls for joint efforts across the region and beyond.
Starting using the launch of individual projects that happen to be expected to assist spur a wider range of cooperative activities, it envisions a network of interconnected markets linking the ASEAN, South Asia, West Asia, North Africa, and Europe, plus a strategic partnership for the South China Sea along with the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Attendees participate in a forum in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, Dec. 11, 2017. The Maritime Silk Road Forum on Arts Development was held here during the 3rd Maritime Silk Road International Arts Festival on Monday. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)
-- The main routes from the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road:
Quanzhou--Fuzhou--Guangzhou--Haikou--Beihai--Hanoi--Jakarta--Colombo--Calcutta--Nairobi--Athens--Venice
-- The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road passess through 23 nations and regions:
The Republic of Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Philippines, Myanmar, Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Tanzania, Greece, Italy
