China is a country where the media is not free. But one cannot but appreciate the way how the People's Republic of China handled a group of 20 international journalists invited to visit Xinjiang to feel for themselves and then write about their ambitious project of reconstructing the Silk Route.
Internationally, we come to know of President Xi Jinping's plans about this "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) from the write-ups of these journalists. Quoting from one of these journalists we know that "at the Urumqi International Land Port zone, among the 18 "A class" land ports in the region. it is clear that the land route of the BR1 will be driven by the railroads that run through Xinjiang. Even a few years before the BRI was announced in 2013, it would have been impossible to consider its scope.
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