One Belt, one Road, The New Silk Road: The beginning

In this second entrance, we will continue exploring one of the most spectacular initiatives in this century, the One belt, One road project.

In words of Swedish explorer Sven Hedin taking about the Silk Road: "It can be said without exaggeration that this artery through the whole of the old world is the longest and from a cultural-historical standpoint the most significant connecting link between peoples and continents that has ever existed on earth"

In the 21st century China want to emulate the old Silk Road, but instead of camels and wooden boats, trains and gigantic vessels will be responsible for half of the worlds trade.

For those of you that are not familiar with this initiative yet, the below video is a short, but very informative version of this project:

For those of you that want to know more, watch the next video, you will have to bear the lack of subtitles, but it´s worth it.

It will frame the context to better understand the importance of this project and how China´s development in the last 35 years has made it possible.

This is probably one of the most colosal initiatives in world´s history, one belt one road will change the world as we know it, and I will be  showing you in the next posts how this humongous project is taking shape.