<P> In September 2013, during a visit to Kazakhstan, Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced a plan for creating a New Silk Road from China to Europe . The latest iterations of this plan, dubbed "One Belt, One Road" (OBOR), includes a land - based Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road, with primary points in Ürümqi, Dostyk, Astana, Gomel, Brest, and the Polish cities of Małaszewicze and Łódź, which would be hubs of logistics and transshipment to other countries of Europe . </P> <P> On 15 February 2016, with a change in routing, the first train dispatched under the OBOR scheme arrived from eastern Zhejiang Province to Tehran . Though this section does not complete the Silk Road--style overland connection between China and Europe, plans are underway to extend the route past Tehran, through Istanbul, into Europe . The actual route went through Almaty, Bishkek, Samarkand, and Dushanbe . </P> <P> In January 2017, the service sent its first train to London . The network additionally connects to Madrid and Milan . </P> <P> The Silk Road consisted of several routes . As it extended westwards from the ancient commercial centres of China, the overland, intercontinental Silk Road divided into northern and southern routes bypassing the Taklamakan Desert and Lop Nur . </P>

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