【NewYorker】A New Silk Road

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Chongqing, one of China’s fastest-growing cities, is the starting point of a seven-thousand-mile railway to Europe.

The Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway required three hundred miles of windproof walls to shield it from gales in the Gobi Desert.

The trade market in Yiwu, in eastern China, covers two square miles and contains more than seventy-five thousand mini-showrooms. Freight trains now carry goods from Yiwu across Central Asia to Tehran, Prague, Madrid, and London.

An aerial view of the train station in Chongqing, in southwest China. It takes freight about two weeks to travel by rail from Chongqing to Duisburg, Germany—half the time it takes by sea.

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