Analysis on the Strategic Position of 'Northern Sea Route' Based on '21st-Century Maritime Silk Route'

Abstract

st-Century Maritime Silk is a new strategy China put forward to take the initiative to create harmonious diplomacy and meanwhile create favorable opportunity and external environment for its deepening reform while facing complicated global situation. China is a growing maritime power, which has to not only safeguard maritime territory but also adopt scientific technology to explore and develop maritime resources as well as maintain oceangoing sea route. In recent years, China has carried out deepening cooperation with Russia in terms of traditional areas such as energy, yet the cooperation in terms of Sea Route remains scant. Therefore, China should take 21st-Century Maritime Silk as an opportunity to mutually develop and utilize resources in arctic areas and Northern Sea route, implement an early layout so as to conduct a new positioning and planning on the development of Sea Route from a higher level and new perspective, and meanwhile take it as a crucial part while carrying out economic cooperation with Russia.