New Silk Road Project

The New Silk Road Project was a project initiated by the People's Republic of China in the first half of the 21st century to construct a series of highways, high speed rail lines, bridges, tunnels, canals, ports and airports linking the entire Eurasian land mass through land and sea corridors for travel and trade. 
Beijing intended for this vast trade network to make China the center of the global economy, a status Chinese dynasties had previously associated with themselves. While it did not make China the center of the global economy in the literal sense, the New Silk Road Project greatly increased Beijing's wealth, power and influence to the point that China rivaled the United States as a world power by 2030.
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