New Silk Road Top-Level Design Has Not Yet Been Completed.

More than 2000 years ago, the camel bell caravan has long been lost in the dust of history. It leads the Asia Pacific Economic Circle in the East and the European economic circle in the West. It crosses 18 countries in Asia and Europe. The trade volume in the hinterland accounts for nearly 1/4 of the total trade volume of the world, and the new Silk Road, with a total population of nearly 3 billion, is being built in full swing. Since the central level in September 2013 clearly put forward to build the new Silk Road Economic Belt, the relevant provinces have long been on the move. Almost all of them are concentrated in the intensive research.

In the provinces along the provinces, competing for the new Silk Road dividends, as the key channel of the ancient Silk Road merchants, and Gansu, which owns the Golden Corridor of the Hexi Corridor, what kind of action has it taken? Recently, reporters visited Lanzhou, Wuwei, Jinchang, Zhangye, Jiayuguan, Jiuquan and other cities, and explored the Gansu sample of the new Silk Road Economic Belt.

Once again, the capital market became the "duck" of the plumbing prophet. In July 4th, the A stock market continued to adjust, but only the new Silk Road concept stocks rose strongly.

This is no accident. Since the construction of the new Silk Road Economic Belt at the central level in September 2013, the relevant provinces have already heard the story.

Only in the early July, less than a week ago, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and many other places held a new Silk Road seminar at the same time, competing for the core position. At one time, new words such as "air Silk Road", "iron and steel silk road" and "online Silk Road" emerge in endlessly.

"The construction of the new silk road is actually a new round of western development." Luo Zhe, director of the Economic Research Institute of Gansu Academy of Social Sciences, said that the new Silk Road Economic Belt is a long-term strategy.

A report issued by China think tank in June 28th predicted that the new Silk Road Economic Belt would take 35 years to be built. Zhou Qiang, deputy director of the West Development Office of the Gansu provincial development and Reform Commission, said the new silk road needs top-level design guidance and coordination, but the national planning has not yet been officially announced.

　　 The temptation of big cake

When the western development strategy was implemented for many years and the western provinces did not successfully complete the curve overtaking, the regional economic strategy, such as the eastern leap forward, the rise of central China, and the revitalization of the old industrial base in Northeast China, had been put forward, which made the dividend of Western Development policy diluted.

Just as the western provinces feel lost, the new Silk Road Economic Belt has been mentioned as a national strategic height, so that all provinces along the road have become the focus of attention at home and abroad for a while.

On the morning of September 7, 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed a joint construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt at the Kazakh, Steiner, Zal and bayev University. In June 29th this year, Xi Jinping visited the Duisburg port of Germany to revisit the Silk Road Construction: China and Germany are located at the two ends of the Silk Road Economic Belt. They are the two largest economies and growth poles in Asia and Europe, and the two countries should strengthen cooperation.

On July 5th, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of the State Council went to Ningxia and Gansu, and stressed that we should push ahead with the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and further implement the strategy of developing the western region.

The new Silk Road Economic Belt is a new economic development area formed on the basis of the concept of the ancient Silk Road. It is considered to be the longest and most potential economic corridor in the world. Behind the corridor is a huge market cake: in 2013, the trade volume between China and the "one belt and one way" country exceeded 1 trillion US dollars, accounting for 1/4. of China's total foreign trade volume.

Huang Renwei, vice president of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, for example, said that if the high-speed rail was built up in the new silk road planning, it would be 40 hours from Lianyungang to Rotterdam according to the calculation of 300 kilometers per hour. If the cargo ships that needed to bypass the Malacca Straits could travel through Europe directly, the advantage of time and space would be obvious.

Avazbek Sadkov, deputy director of the Uzbekistan Institute of prediction and macroeconomics, believes that there are potential cooperation areas in the energy, electricity, textile, building materials and tourism areas along the new Silk Road Economic Belt.

South Korean President Park Geun hye said in his speech in July 4th that he needed to consider the integration of South Korea's "Eurasian initiative" and China's "New Silk Road Economic Belt" concept.

At home, the new Silk Road Economic Belt has been mentioned at the national level of strategic height, so that the once lost western province has smelled a rare opportunity for development, and has even tasted the sweetness ahead of time.

In July 1st, at the construction site of the bonded logistics center in Wuwei, Gansu, it was observed that only 10 months after the commencement of the construction, the main building was basically completed. In another 40 days, the foreign trade land port, which is specially designed for the new Silk Road, will be closed. In the next week, reporters in Jinchang, Jiuquan and other cities saw that the big projects supporting the new Silk Road Economic Belt were everywhere.

"We have been very busy in recent times, and Gansu has identified 9 special research projects, including the new Silk Road Economic Belt," he said. According to Luo Zhe, Gansu is the first province to follow up the concept of the new silk road.

In addition, in connection with the new Silk Road Economic Belt, the inter city railway plan of Guanzhong City Group, which was recently approved by the national development and Reform Commission, pushed the construction of intercity railway network centered on Xi'an, Baoji Xi'an Weinan as the main axis and covered more than 200 thousand population towns.

Even the teachers and students of the Arabia College of Ningxia University have a new goal. Over half a year, more than 2000 students have gone abroad to learn Arabic, so as to reserve more talents who can communicate with new investment partners.

"Along the way is a new growth point for Western China's economy." Roger told reporters.

　　 Competing for dividends

When the cake is available, next is to see how to divide it.

The report of the think-tank on "the Silk Road Economic Belt: vision and path" puts forward that the construction of the new Silk Road Economic Belt with a span of 35 years needs three steps. Namely, from 2016 to 2016 as the strategic mobilization stage; 2016~2021 as the strategic planning period, led by major powers to set up a coordination group to clarify various standards in the existing cooperation mechanism and strive for the completion of the basic internal governance framework.

In other words, many domestic and big projects, intensive seminars, manufacturing concepts and media publicity are only the strategic mobilization period for the long-term planning of the new Silk Road Economic Belt.

Fang Hongming, director of Gansu Asia Europe Continental Bridge International Logistics Co., briefed reporters that the construction of Wuwei bonded logistics center in order to rush ahead with progress and guarantee the duration of the project, the company transferred all the corresponding teams from Beijing to the Wuwei project site, and the construction site guaranteed 200 people to work overtime every day.

But in Roche's view, the construction of the new Silk Road Economic Belt needs a scientific and systematic theoretical system to support it, which in itself is a "slow life" and is now in the exploratory stage. The information obtained from reliable channels shows that the new silk road planning at the central level has not yet been promulgated. The local silk road economic belt construction plan is even more obvious. The fast response Gansu province has not officially announced the relevant plans.

But this does not affect the "enthusiasm" of local governments. In July 4th, before the closing ceremony of the "Silk Road Economic Belt" seminar in Kyrgyzstan and China, Luoyang held a series of seminars on Luoyang's departure from Kyrgyzstan, and Urumqi held the "International Symposium on the Silk Road Economic Belt". If you sing, I will be on the stage.

The latest formulation of Xinjiang is "building the core area of the new Silk Road Economic Belt". Luoyang's contention is the beginning of the silk road. The voice from the conference is: "Luoyang is an important Oriental starting point for the silk road." the reason is that, according to the textual research of the ancient Silk Road, Luoyang is the starting point in history. However, how much coincidence does the new Silk Road Economic Belt and the ancient Silk Road thousands of years ago have on the route? The need for economic development, the result of radiation hinterland and geological exploration will obviously not simply take the road map of the ancient Silk Road.

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The direction of Shaanxi is to rely on air transportation to let Silk Road cooperation and communication go from "go" to "fly", and take the construction of Xi'an National Aviation City Experimental Zone as a breakthrough, and create a new starting point of "air Silk Road". Harbin's entry point is to build an online Russian silk road through the electronic business platform.

Luo Zhe said that the construction of the new Silk Road Economic Belt needs a long process, especially the top-level design of the country. The brothers provinces can not rush to the herd, vicious competition can not compete with each other like before. Bonded area The construction of free trade area is the same.

　　 Three major problems to be solved

It is clearly not the central intention of the central authorities to put forward the new Silk Road Economic Belt.

Zhang Gaoli, vice premier of the State Council, pointed out in July 5th that the construction of "one belt and one road" should be carried out in accordance with the unified arrangement of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. It is necessary to identify its own position and scientifically define the role and responsibilities of the local government in the overall situation. We must do well in interconnection and interconnection, strengthen policy communication, link the road, trade flow, currency circulation and people's hearts. The five provinces and autonomous regions in the northwest are important support for the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. The central government has placed great hopes on the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt in the five provinces and autonomous regions in the northwest.

In this regard, economist Ai Feng in Lanzhou, Gansu, including a number of media said that in the new Silk Road Economic Belt construction process, if the West bears the role and responsibilities of the Middle East region homogenization, then the west is bound to suffer losses. The construction of the new silk road is actually a process of integration between the East and the central and western regions, including the western part of Gansu, and the role of relay station should be played in the construction of the new silk road.

Sun Zhuangzhi, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Research Center of the Academy of Social Sciences, believes that as a unique way of geo economic cooperation, the new Silk Road Economic Belt should be set up in three aspects: reciprocal interest community, win-win development community and open cooperation community.

However, in July 2nd, Zhao Jinping, Minister of Foreign Economic Research of the National Research Center, pointed out that there are three difficult problems in the construction of the new Silk Road Economic Belt: first, the lack of strategic mutual trust; two, the backward infrastructure; along the Silk Road area, due to unbalanced economic development, lack of close connection, lack of infrastructure or incompatibility, or incapability of meeting the requirements of economic and trade cooperation, which has become a major shortcoming restricting the upgrading of regional cooperation; three, there are also some obstacles and constraints in trade and investment cooperation, which has increased the investment cost of enterprises and affected the investment enthusiasm of enterprises.

　　 Local samples

new Silk Road Gansu section: "golden channel" for the six major projects

In the first round of the western development, Gansu, which failed to achieve the "overtaking of corners", took the lead in sniffing the opportunity of "revival".

The western province, which has 58 poverty-stricken counties and 8790 poor villages, has invested in the western development policy dividend over the past 10 years. Although the economy has developed rapidly, the gap between the two provinces has been widening.

The opening ceremony of the "Lan Qun Hui" in July 6th as the theme of the "Xinhua Silk Road Economic Xinhua chapter" shows Gansu's eagerly looking forward to the new round of policy dividends. Although the overall planning of the new silk road construction has not yet been announced, Gansu has made a complete set of "golden section" construction plan for itself.

In July 1st, from the Gansu provincial development and Reform Commission's "general plan for the construction of the Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt", it is shown that Gansu intends to build itself into a golden channel for the new Silk Road, a strategic platform for opening to the west, a regional center for economic and trade logistics, a demonstration base for industrial cooperation, and a bridge for cultural exchanges.

Zhou Qiang, deputy director of the West Development Office of the provincial development and Reform Commission, said, "Gansu will probably formulate a new five year plan for the new silk road construction."

　　 In all directions: Plan "Fuxing Road".

According to Luo Zhe, director of the Institute of economics, Gansu Academy of Social Sciences, Gansu first responded to the strategic vision of the new Silk Road Economic Belt at the central level last September 8th. "In September 9th, I participated in the forum at the Propaganda Department of the provincial Party committee, and the participants discussed the construction of the new Silk Road Economic Belt in Gansu."

In the following 10 months, the development research center of Gansu and the State Council jointly carried out in-depth research on how to bring Gansu's advantages and potential into full play, and strive to build the Gansu section of the new Silk Road Economic Belt. It formed two research results: "the strategic vision for advancing the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt" and "the general thinking and strategic measures to promote the construction of the Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt".

In May 2014, the "Asia Cooperation Dialogue Silk Road pragmatic cooperation forum" opened in Lanzhou. This is the first large-scale international special forum held by China after the "one belt and one way" strategy put forward by the Central Committee. It has set up an important platform for Gansu's opening up to the West and the construction of Gansu's golden section of the new Silk Road Economic Belt.

Subsequently, the Gansu provincial government launched the business of the eastern and central enterprises such as Taiwan businessmen and Zhejiang merchants.

While recruiting domestic enterprises, the Gansu business delegation headed by Zhang Shien, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Commerce, began an economic and trade inspection visit to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Zhang Shien said that during the inspection period, there was a cooperation intention between Gansu enterprises and Kyrgyzstan enterprises, and they planned to invest in cooperation to create a market with entertainment and commerce as a whole.

In fact, another important achievement of Zhang Shien's trip is that he successfully invited representatives from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to participate in the China Lanzhou investment and trade fair, which was opened in July 6th. The Lanzhou fair, known as "the largest investment and Trade Fair held in Gansu", has helped Zhangye attract 106 billion yuan in the first two days of its opening. It has signed 108 projects for Pingliang, attracting 50 billion 700 million yuan, and signing a total of 48 billion 500 million yuan for Wuwei.

Zhou Qiang said that the Gansu provincial development and Reform Commission has done a lot of basic preparatory work in the past 10 months, including the comprehensive bonded zone of Lanzhou New District, which is submitted to the State Council and will be approved soon. It will coordinate and open up new routes from Lanzhou to Central Asia and Western Asia as soon as possible. In addition, it has attracted some enterprises to enter Lanzhou new area, making Lanzhou New District a base for opening to the West and undertaking industrial transfer. "The work of building the new Silk Road Economic Belt in Gansu is proceeding step by step." Zhou Qiang said.

　　 Rehabilitation Corridor: opening wider to the West

　　 Gansu If we want to play the historical card, the Hexi Corridor must be a "trump card" in its hands.

Reporters recently interviewed five cities in Hexi, and Gansu is confident that the new Silk Road Economic Belt will be built on the grounds that it used to be the gateway to the ancient Silk Road merchants gathered before 2100. However, today's Hexi Corridor is no longer the appearance of business travel two thousand years ago, and the camel ringing that has been heard for a long time has long been lost in the dust of history. The reporter saw that from Wuwei to west, until Jiuquan, there were not many vehicles on the way.

In the logic of Gansu Province, if we want to get more dividend in the new silk road construction, we need to repair the Hexi Corridor and straighten out the relationship with China's Middle East, Central Asia and Western Asia. This is why Gansu has spared no expense in developing the characteristic economy of five cities in Hexi.

Taking Wuwei bonded logistics center of Gansu Province as an example, in January 29, 2014, with the approval of the State Customs General Administration, the Ministry of finance, the General Administration of Taxation and the foreign exchange administration, Wuwei set up the first bonded logistics center in the whole province.

According to the introduction, Wuwei bonded logistics center will be built into the "international land port" in Western China, and the future development potential can not be underestimated.

Similar to the situation in Wuwei, Jinchang, Zhangye, Jiayuguan, Jiuquan and other cities are also excavating characteristic industries such as special agricultural products, ethnic characteristics, Chinese herbal medicines, animal husbandry and new energy. These are all aimed at better undertaking the task of constructing the new Silk Road Economic Belt.

　　 Planning layout: Aiming at "golden channel"

Although it has a historical origin with the Silk Road, it does not have obvious advantages from the current economic strength of Gansu.

In an interview with reporters, Luo Zhe said that from the "west gate", Gansu has no geographical advantages compared with Xinjiang, which is adjacent to Central Asia and Western Asia. From the "East Gate", the total economic volume of Gansu is much lower than that of neighboring Shaanxi. Moreover, half of the 26 million of the population in Gansu province belong to the poor population, and there are problems such as irrational industrial structure, weak growth momentum of consumption demand, weak innovation capability and few new economic growth points.

Economist Ai Feng believes that Gansu should play the role of relay station according to its own characteristics, and its positioning should be the development of "corridor economy". In fact, in the general plan for the construction of the "Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt", which was drafted by the Gansu provincial development and Reform Commission, it clearly mentioned that Gansu should be built as the "golden channel" for the silk road. Although the plan has not yet been officially announced, the full text of the program from the provincial development and Reform Commission shows that Gansu will focus on building the three strategic platforms of Lanzhou New District, Dunhuang international cultural tourism city and the "China Silk Road exposition", focusing on six major projects, such as road interconnection, trade and technology exchange, industrial docking and cooperation, new economic growth poles, cultural exchanges and cooperation, and strategic platform construction.

Zhou Qiang said that after the announcement of the national master plan, Gansu will first connect with it, and then apply for special policy support to the country.

He also revealed that Gansu will timely open regular freight trains from Lanzhou to Central Asia, Russia and Europe, strengthen cooperation with airlines such as China Eastern Airlines, and open up flights and cargo routes to Lanzhou and Dunhuang directly to Almaty and other Central Asian and Western Asian countries.