In accordance with the maritime tract towards Europe, China’s investment has focused on the Piraeus Port (Greece), and on the development of a network of logistic infrastructures over the Balkans and Hungary. From Nairobi, it will go to the North around the African Horn and it will move over the Red Sea towards the Mediterranean, with a stop in Athens before coming across with the terrestrial part of the Belt in Venice. From Kuala Lumpur, the Route will go through Kolkata and Colombo, then it will cross the rest of the Indic Ocean to Nairobi. The maritime Silk Road headed to the East will start in the province of Fujian and will cross Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan before directing towards the South until the Strait of Malacca. The maritime route, one of the OBOR's key pieces (also known as the Maritime Silk Road of 21st century), will take advantage of the fact that seven of the world's ten biggest harbors are in China, something that helped China to become an important exporter of services of port management. OBOR tries to reach these objectives by promoting a better connectivity between China and Europe through the development of intermediate points in the center, west and south of Asia. OBOR is now a great plan for redesigning the strategic environment of China, projecting the Chinese economic power, guaranteeing China the access to energy and minerals and stimulating the economic growth in western China. Known as One Belt-One Road (OBOR), this plan is expected to be key for the Chinese supremacy as a superpower over the rest of the countries. ▲The two ways for the 'One Bell-One Route' project ĪRTICLE / Jimena Puga Gómez Īfter the speech of the Chinese president Xi Jinping in 2013 about revitalizing the ancient Silk Road, the project that started as a simple idea has become the biggest challenge for the world economy, a total revolution in the infrastructures of people’s transports, goods, hydrocarbons and high technology. But unlike the land route through the republics of Central Asia, the seaway can soon be a reality in certain sections, as China has already built some ports in part of the route. ![]() The ambitious initiative launched by Xi Jinping to connect China with the rest of the Eurasian continent can be costly and difficult. ![]() The 'One Belt-One Route' project aims to consolidate China's rise as a superpower
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