New Eurasian Land Bridge
The New Eurasian Land Bridge (NELB) is an international passageway linking the Pacific and the Atlantic. As distinct from the Siberian Landbridge, which goes from Russia’s eastern port of Vladivostok through Siberia to Moscow and onward to West European countries, this “second” bridge goes from China’s coastal cities of Lianyungang and Rizhao to Holland’s Rotterdam and Belgium’s Antwerp. The 10,800-kilometer-long rail link runs through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany, and serves more than 30 countries and regions.
Opened in the early 1990s, the NELB is gaining new impetus from the Belt and Road Initiative. It greatly facilitates trade and other exchanges between the countries along the route and between Asia and Europe.
To date, several transcontinental rail routes, which showcase the potential of the Belt and Road Initiative, have entered service. These include the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe Railway (reaching Germany’s Duisburg via Poland), the Chengdu-Xinjiang-Europe Railway (reaching Poland), and the Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe Railway (reaching Madrid). The construction of associated highways, power transmission lines, and ports is progressing in a steady manner.
新亞歐大陸橋
新亞歐大陸橋是相對“西伯利亞大陸橋”（從俄羅斯東部沿海的迪沃斯托克出發(fā)，橫穿西伯利亞大鐵路通向莫斯科，然后通向歐洲各國）而言的，又名“第二亞歐大陸橋”，東起江蘇連云港、山東日照等中國沿海港口城市，西至荷蘭鹿特丹、比利時安特衛(wèi)普等歐洲口岸，途經(jīng)哈薩克斯坦、俄羅斯、白俄羅斯、波蘭、德國等，全長約10800公里，輻射世界30多個國家和地區(qū)，是橫跨亞歐兩大洲，連接太平洋和大西洋的國際大通道。
20世紀(jì)90年代初，新亞歐大陸橋初步開通。 “一帶一路”有力推動了新亞歐大陸橋建設(shè)，為沿線國家和亞歐兩大洲經(jīng)濟(jì)貿(mào)易交流提供了便捷的大通道。
?作為“一帶一路”建設(shè)的標(biāo)志性項(xiàng)目，渝新歐、蓉新歐、義新歐等多條鐵路運(yùn)輸干線已經(jīng)開通，其中渝新歐從重慶出發(fā)，通過位于中東歐的波蘭抵達(dá)德國的杜伊斯堡，蓉新歐則是從成都出發(fā)，直接抵達(dá)波蘭，義新歐則從浙江義烏出發(fā)，抵達(dá)西班牙首都馬德里。與此同時，與新亞歐大陸橋建設(shè)相關(guān)的公路交通、輸電線路、港口建設(shè)等方面的工作也在穩(wěn)步推進(jìn)。