KHORGOS, China -- Trade is thriving along the "modern Silk Road," which passes through a far-flung city on the border of China and Kazakhstan. Khorgos is about 3,500 kilometers due west of Beijing ...
It was known as the Silk Road because of the popular trade in silk. The Silk Road doesn’t just refer to actual roads, though. Many of the routes along the Silk Road were by sea, on what became ...
The trade routes also acted as conduits for ... because ships along maritime routes from India could carry more goods than Silk Road carts and could also travel faster. In his new book The Golden ...
[Photo/Xinhua] TEHERAN — The memory and inspiration of the Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes stretching from China to Europe, provide an attractive platform for cultural exchange ...
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has injected fresh vitality into the millennia-old Silk Road with its ... "It has boosted the flow of goods, services, capital, technologies and human resources ...