Abstract
After a short time from the discovery of silk by China, it had become a status symbol in the world, and it reached up to the Roman Empire. This created trade routes and they were called the “Silk Road.” The goods that came to the Mediterranean through this historical trade route were distributed to the world through Mediterranean ports. However, invention of compass by China paved the way for geographical discoveries and new trade routes were found as a result of these discoveries. These developments reduced importance of the Silk Road. Approx. 500 years later, China became a manufacturing center as a result of its trade with the West. This situation reminded China of the “Historic Silk Road,” and they announced the project under the name of One Belt One Road to the world in 2013, which is essentially a modern version of the “Historic Silk Road.” Economic Opportunities In Obor Project will be analysed in this study.
TopProcess From Historical Silk Road To Modern Silk Road
The Silk Road Concept
In Britannica, the Silk Road is defined as “the ancient trade route connecting China to the west, where goods and ideas are moved between two great civilizations of Rome and China (Britannica, 2019: Silk Road). The concept of “Silk Road” is actually a word with a hundred years of history used by German Geologist and geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in his work in which he describes China and the west of China. But there's no doubt that even if the road is based on the silk from which it gets its name, it has gained another dimension with the Aurignac traces on Loess Cover found by Teilhard de Chardin geologist and paleontologist who discovered the Beijing Human Skull. Aurignac is the general name of the industrial phase from the upper paleolithic period and dates back to the west of France and up to 33.000 BC. In the new Stone Age, the ceramic produced unique to that age was delivered to China with the road going through the (Uhlig, 1986: 13-18). Looking at the earlier periods, although it could be said that the road which could not be named until Richthofen was primarily a ceramics road depending on the commodity of ceramics carried on it, ceramics could not get in the way of silk with the fact that ceramics reached China and easily it could be produced in China and it could be processed in other civilizations in time. Because silk had become a symbol of wealth, luxury and nobleness for that period, and it was produced in the Chinese monopoly for a long time. It is also accepted as a natural resource with limited production status such as gold and silver. The trade of the silk, which was attributed so much importance for that period, created a transport corridor, and although corridor’s name was given later, it received approval as “Silk Road”.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Logistic: It refers to all the processes of a product from the first manufacturer to the end consumer, such as transportation, storage, customs clearance, packaging, distribution. In another definition, logistics; To provide the right product at the right place, at the right time, in the right amount, in the right way, in the right quality, at a competitive price.
Transportation Corridors: It is a geographical line that connects two points within the scope of freight and passenger transport using one or more transport modes. National for those who connect the dots within the same country; Those connecting points within different countries are called international transport corridors. Priority transport corridors with high capacity and quality, with a variety of transport modes are called main (core) transport corridors. Corridors that connect the main transportation corridors to each other and reach different endpoints are called intermediate or branch corridors. The fact that there is only one highway between two points does not make this a transportation corridor. There must be a variety of different transport modes for different types of freight.
One Belt One Road (OBOR): It is today's most ambitious infrastructure initiative that aims to change the axis of global trade. China, Turkey Relations: Diplomatic relations between the East Asian countries of China and Turkey, is based on the 1971.The cooperation between Ankara and Beijing has gained momentum since the 1980s, when both countries began to open up to the outside and rose economically and politically. Relations, which were raised to the level of “Strategic Cooperation” in 2010, developed with the contribution of mutual high-level visits.
Middle Corridor: Turkey’s initiative called as “Middle Project” which is a transportation corridor intersect with China’s OBOR Project.