New Eurasian Continental Bridge

Train on the Lanzhou - Xinjiang route

The new Eurasian Continental Bridge ( Chinese  新亚欧大陆桥 , Pinyin Xin Asia-ou Dalu Qiao , English New Eurasian Continental Bridge ), which also Second Eurasian Continental Bridge ( 第二亚欧大陆桥 , Dì'èr Ya-Ou Dalu Qiao , English Second Eurasian Continental Bridge ) is a 10,870 kilometer rail link that connects Rotterdam in Europe with the east Chinese port city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province .

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Train T165 near Weinan

The railway connection has existed since 1990 and runs through the Djungarian Gate ( Alashankou border station ). The Lan-Xin Railway ( Chinese  兰 新 铁路 , Pinyin Lán-Xīn Tiělù ), i.e. the route from Lanzhou to Urumqi (in Xinjiang ), is part of it.

There is a northern, middle and southern route. The middle route runs through Kazakhstan via Dostyk , Aqtogai , Nur-Sultan (until 2019 Astana) , Samara , Smolensk , Brest , Warsaw , Berlin to the port of Rotterdam . From the Slovakian Košice there will also be a junction into the Greater Vienna area, see broad gauge Košice – Vienna .

See also

• One Belt, One Road
• Trans-Eurasia-Express , container train from Germany to China
• Yuxinou , container train from China to Germany

literature

• Tom Miller: China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road . Zed Books, February 2017, ISBN (Paperback) 9781783609239

Web links

• Countries along Eurasian continental bridge to convene - English
• Bright Prospect of New Eurasian Continental Bridge - English
• New transversal
• Xin Ya-Ou dalu qiao jianjie - Chinese (Link not available on March 31, 2016)
• Xin Ya-Ou dalu qiao (New Asia Europe continental bridge) - Chinese

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200706/21/eng20070621_386209.html
2. ↑ landbridge.gov.cn ( Memento from August 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ cf. landbridge.gov.cn ( Memento from August 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )