Renaissance and urbanism along the silk road

In March 24th 2015, the Chinese government development center has raised a new proposal called “one belt one road”: In the next 10 years, the government will invest 8.3 billion US-dollars in the Silk-Road area. Afterwards, the ancient Silk-Road from Chang’an to Istanbul comes to the view. Since in this vast region, most areas are still economically underdeveloped, the construction of infrastructural facilities becomes the key role of the economic growth. In geography way, the whole area is divided into five parts. They are: Turkey, centred on Istanbul; Iran, centred on Hamadan; Centre-Asia, centred on Samarkand; Xinjiang, centred on An-xi four cities, and Chang’an area. Among them Xinjiang province of China possesses the largest possibility of prospect due to political and policy reason. Therefore, this thesis takes Xinjiang area as a sample. Two cases have been researched to enhance the comprehension taking count of other historical routes: El Camino de Santiago and the Via Francigena. Then the analysis of Chinese new policy shows the economic impact and the development tendency. Based on this background, the whole strategy of Silk-Road is then expressed in five parts as an outline. In a smaller scale, Xinjiang area has three proposals: first, an inside province highway construction; second, a railway expansion to Guadar; third, a tourism thematic park establishment. The last part of the text demonstrates Chinese Islamic city image in a brief way.