Transportation industry patterns and strategy for the countries along “The Belt and Road”

Abstract

“Silk Road Economic Belt” and “The 21st Century Marine Silk Road” are the major strategic concepts of China to build a new sustainable international political and economic order, to face the complex and changeable international geopolitical economic patterns and combat the global economic crisis. Transportation is the dominant force to shape and change economic spatial patterns. In this research, through the study of existing literature and data, the author built the transportation patterns of the countries along “The Belt and Road”, revealed that among the countries along “The Belt and Road”, the infrastructure constructions were perfect, the trade development of transportation industry was not balanced, the developed countries had obvious advantages, and the developing countries were developing rapidly. Then, the author established the transportation measures of the countries along “The Belt and Road”, which were that China should innovate cooperation mechanism, establish cooperation platforms, play a vanguard role of the civil aviation, set high-speed rail construction as the breakthrough point, establish international logistics system, set up International Logistics Association, and so on. This research took the international perspective and scientific analysis to support the national strategy of “The Belt and Road”, and the conclusions will provide a strong theoretical basis and strategic support for the construction of “The Belt and Road”.