The Maritime Silk Road
The Maritime Silk Road The plan is inspired by the 2000-year-old sea route that gave China historical cultural reputation, including the Indian Ocean Colombo, the Bangladesh China Myanmar Corridor (BCIM) and the Pakistan-China Corridor. The Silk Road Project Asia, known as the Belt and Road Initiative. It will pass through Europe and Africa, which will create opportunities for economic development in the region. The project will connect China's ports to Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Greece and Kenya.
Specific of the projects :-
China believes that the initiative to revive the centuries-old silk route (trade route) through the countries of Central Asia will strengthen the economic condition of Asia.China is keen to engage with India to link.
Aims of the Projects :-
Ports in strategically important countries located in South-East Asia and the Indian Ocean region. and to give priority to the creation of infrastructure. These include Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. China has more or less completed the construction of port projects in Gwadar in Pakistan, Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Maro in Maldives, Chittagong in Bangladesh etc. China also plans to create free trade zones linking its coastal regions to the south east and the Indian Ocean as part of an initiative to revive the ancient Maritime Silk Road. These are the areas along which China's ancient Maritime Silk Route through trade relations.
Structure: The Maritime Silk Route will start from Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province and travel south through Guanzhou (Guangdang Province), Beihai (Guangxi) and Haikou (Henan) to the Straits of Malacca. The Maritime Silk Road from Kulala Lumpur will head towards Kolkata in India and then cross the rest of the Indian Ocean to Nairobi, Kenya. The Maritime Silk Road from Nairobi would go north around the horn of Africa, from there via the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea via Athens to be joined by a land-based silk route in Venice.
