what china's northwest province of gansu is reporting that belton road project is just it's booming there a day that's a given their economy a major boost when you say remote and try to the province of 26000000 people have easily someplace else that's a lot but it truly is remote it's closer up to the moment goalie and border but here let's take a look at this map this will give you a better idea of this whole built in road idea and what it looks like so in this situation belt and road means belt it means roads and actually roads means shipping routes the project currently spends over 71 countries and there are in 3 continents that being asia europe and africa and gansu as you can see if they are in china is on one of these trade routes which makes it the perfect place to be so when you consider belton road covers how the earth's population a quarter of the g.d.p. you know gansu is in the money right now the 1st few months that we saw trade happening with delton wrote going through that area 6.7 percent increase in trade and belt accounted for over half of all foreign trade in that provin

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