Table of Contents

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The Overland Silk Road

Zhang Qian opened up the Silk Road

Xi’an, the starting point of the overland Silk Road

Dunhuang amazing the world

Ancient civilizations in the gold hinterland

Convergence of civilizations in the Fergana Valley

Papermaking that changed the history of the world civilizations

Xuanzang’s pilgrimage to the west for Buddhist sculptures

Persian Empire on the Silk Road

Baghdad, the Silk Road hub of the Arab Empire

Arriving in ancient Rome in Europe

02

The Maritime Silk Road

“Guangzhou’s maritime passage”, the predecessor of the Maritime Silk Road

The birth of the Maritime Silk Road

Quanzhou, the starting point of the Maritime Silk

Road

The road of the princess’s marriage alliance to the Persian Gulf

Zheng He’s great voyages to the Western Oceans

The spice road to Arabia

Ancient friendship between China and Africa

The silver-silk trade between China and the Americas

East China Sea route to Japan and Korean Peninsula

03

BRI Keep Going

Great shared dreams

Six economic corridors: Major arteries of international economic cooperation

Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, Cambodia’s new industrial area

The first cross-sea bridge of the Maldives

Serbia’s dream factory has again become a source of local people’s pride

Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, a rising star in Kenya

Ties between Djibouti and China

Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, is ushering in a warm winter

Papua New Guinea: The story of the APEC meeting’s host

The “magic rice inventor” in Madagascar

Hope for a good harvest in Sri Lanka

Lesotho’s cattle and sheep eat “Chinese grass”

East-West cultural exchanges between Volvo and Geely

Brazil’s “north-to-south power transmission”

“Beijing Hospital” in Ethiopia

China-guided, Iran-built Tehran subway

Shougang Hierro Peru S.A.A.: From a pioneer to a pathfinder

Duisburg, a small German city transformed thanks to China Railway Express

Gwadar, a desert-changed international port

Conclusion: BRI connects the Chinese Dream with the world’s dream

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