After thousands of years and thousands of miles, the Silk Road has formulated the earliest commercial rules for long-distance trade in human society, and created different commercial civilizations in different historical periods. At the same time, because commercial activities have brought exchanges and integration between different civilizations, commercial activities on this trade route have also profoundly affected the world economic pattern, It has formed the oldest business wisdom. The documentary aims to conduct a new sorting of the economic and trade activities of the Silk Road Economic Belt from the three levels of history, modernity and the future. It can learn the wisdom of commercial civilization from history, record the current commercial activities, sense the vitality of the Silk Road trade, look forward to the future, and predict the world economic pattern. A total of eight production teams were sent to shoot the documentary for nearly one and a half years, covering more than 300000 kilometers from Asia to Europe, covering nearly 13 countries along the route, including Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Britain, Japan, the United States, etc, It provides a win-win business opportunity for the economic development of all countries.
The formation, development, prosperity and decline of the Silk Road recorded the development of human civilization. Similarly, as the largest stage of human stories, in different historical spaces, it shines with the name of "the road of spices, the road of jade, the road of tea, and the road of art", which is a difficult journey for human society to temper itself and progress civilization.
Silk is gentle and luxurious. Who first mastered its production technology? When did silk first appear in Europe? What is its status? What force made silk arrive in Europe from China?
After thousands of years of construction, the Silk Road has been like a network, closely weaving different races and countries across Eurasia into this transportation network. The network is unblocked, and the pace of civilization is rich and light; The traffic is blocked, and the history is barren and desolate.
In today's City of London, the Bank of England, which has a history of more than 300 years, planted two mulberry trees in its back garden in memory of the world's first paper money. On the Silk Road more than a thousand years ago, the Chinese in the Song Dynasty made the world's first paper money from mulberry bark and leaves.
How many precious documents are buried under the long yellow sand along the Silk Road? Can they solve the secret of the success of the Silk Road business? What bloody conflicts broke out due to the destruction of trade on this trade route?
The history of the Silk Road is also a history of war. Since the first Persian Empire across Europe, Asia and Africa in human history, the great drama of conquest and ruin has been staged in cycles. Finally, with the Ottoman Turks' capture of Istanbul in 1453, the Silk Road was gradually cut off.
The Silk Road, which has been circulating for thousands of years, is a trade road from east to west, and also a stage for civilization blending. The exchange of science and technology, the migration of population, the integration of culture, and the collision and tolerance of thousands of years make the civilization form on this long road integrated and distinct.
Karachi, a city of 20 million people in Pakistan, has stood on the southern route of the Silk Road for thousands of years. BP left after exploiting the most easily developed oil and gas field here, leaving behind poverty.
