Roads binding thread: from the Great Silk way to the modern highway

Construction international transport corridor "Western Europe – Western China", the Great Silk way which has revived an intercontinental ancient route, became the largest infrastructure project realized in close cooperation between Kazakhstan and China within the "One Belt, One Way" project. This international thoroughfare connects the Chinese port Lianyungang on the Yellow Sea to the Russian sea gate on Baltic – Saint Petersburg. Length of a new transport corridor makes 8461 kilometers 3425 kilometers from which are the share of the territory China, 2787–...