China's Belt and Road Initiative: the Opportunity for Railways (or not?)
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Published 2020-12-09
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- Today, we are speaking about one global initiative that we believe most of you have already heard of - The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
This Initiative, also known as One Belt One Road, or simply OBOR, can be described as the main tool of China's international policy.
In this video, we tried to explain it in its essence, starting from the reasons behind China’s decision to launch it at first place, all the way to the role and the potential of railways within its context.
Of course, we started from the very beginnings - the history of trade between Europe and China and the establishment of the Silk Road. Then, we explained the present day economic relations and ties between Europe and China, which contributed to the formation of B&R corridors. Also, we covered geographical aspect of Belt and Road corridors (for both the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road), and, in the second part of this video, we put our focus to the role and the potential of railway traffic within the Belt and Road Corridors.
But, for more details, you'll have to watch the full video.
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All Comments (21)
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Would love to one day see a freight train running a continuous, unbroken route on standard gauge (1435mm) from China 🇨🇳 to Europe 🇪🇺 either through four rail dual gauge (1435+1520) between Western China and Iran 🇮🇷 or three rail dual gauge through Pakistan 🇵🇰 (1435+1676).
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If CO2, SOx and NOx emissions were priced fairly, the marine route would have no chance in competing with electrified Eurasian Land Bridge route.
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Silk Road 2.0! Great productions from railway engineering point of view. Keep it up!
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The Americans will do every thing in their power to make sure this don't happen. Eurasia railways will spur economic booms from Asia to Europe, America will have no part in this economic boom. China and Eu are two America's biggest rivals, this railway will strengthen two of its biggest rivals.
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"The eyes of history are on this appointment." - Buttigeig 1964 Japan's first bullet trains were put in service and the the first Beatles album was released. 1998 China started the construction of 36,000km of high speed railways and high speed trains. 2020 US still has NO high speed railway and NO high speed trains.
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The most comprehensive description of the Silk roads trains. I love it! I hope Africa will have something similar in the future.
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Another great video. Amazing idea. You presented a new perspective of Belt and Road Initiative by explaining role of railways within this initiative. Just keep going!
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Very informative. Thank you. PS: China developed a variable gouge train that can cross countries with different railway standards without the need to switch trains.
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Great video! Looking forward for more international project stuff. Really interesting to see railway transport develop; maybe as time goes on we'll get a high speed line between Europe, Moscow and China, lol. I'd be the first one to hop on a 5 night train to Beijing
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Haha in one of the maps ~4:00 my country (Tajikistan) is shown to be part of China. We are not that significant but not yet part of China. I think it's a popular map since I have seen it a couple of times, but just wanted to point it out.
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Great, detailed and we'll done video! Would be interesting to see a similar video on the container rail network in the USA. It's a complex and greatly used rail network which deserves your attention. Look forward in seeing it in future.
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Linking China and Europe via Iran is so important for the stabilization of Middle Eastern Countries which have been play-things of European colonial powers since 1918: Best wishes to China with these projects
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Nice one. Enjoyed it 🔥
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Great Insight And Thank You!🙏👍🙂
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I was learning railway (HSR, more specifically) in bachelor, I found it boring and change the major in Master. However, your video is really impressive and inspire some of my curiosity. Thank you for you good work and keep it up.
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Excellent video!
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Great video, a lot of interesting data...
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Thank you . You have done your homework. Good job.
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19:03 hey a greek OSE electric locomotive, didn't expect to see that in this video.
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Wow! I enjoy every video of you guys. Keep it going 👍
