The Strategic Conception of the Silk Road Economic Belt and Its Challenges

The Silk Road Economic Belt is a strategic conception for bigger regional economic development.It has its own history of transformation and development.The opening of the second Asia-Europe continental bridge and the economic development of regions along the bridge is the objective basis for the Silk Road Economic Belt;furthermore,countries along the Silk Road have made significant progress in economic development,infrastructure construction,international communication,coordination and cooperation.The concept of Silk Road Economic Belt has its realistic foundation,and the economic cooperation in this big region is achievable.The construction of the economic belt on the Silk Road is a long-term goal and has to be planned carefully and achieved stage by stage.