Recent conditions and issues on resource development along the silk road

摘要

The area along the Silk Road is composed ofCentral Asian countries of Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the Caucasus countries of Azerbaijan,Georgia, Armenia, China'sXinjiang Uygur and Mongolia. After the collapse of the USSR, thisarea has started its transition to a free market system. This area isrich in mineral resources of base metals, rare metals and gold.Central Asia and Caucasus were the supply basement of rawmaterials in the USSR era, Mongolia continues in this role whileChina's Xinjiang once had the same role.Now this area is carrying out the innovation of an economicsystem and attempting to introduce foreign capital. They wish topromote mineral resource development. However, foreigncompanies specializing in mineral resource development have beeninactive in this area because of the lack of laws that improve thetax system, structure of government organizations related tomining, financial system, lack of technology that enhancesprofitability, practice of long negotiation, and other harriers.In the intermediate future, this area must introduce foreign capitaland transfer Western technology. Development of mineralresources under socialism was mostly for large size deposits.Therefore, there are many small-medium deposits that remain. Thedevelopment of small-medium deposits will make the miningindustry powerful. This area can realize the development of small-medium deposits with the government's support and internationalorganizations' aid.The 21st Century Silk Road concept will realize this developmentThis area has a favorable geo-political position for access toWestern Europe, Japan, Russia and the Middle East Therelationship with Japan on the mineral resource developmentshould he studied with the contribution of Japanese technologyaccumulated for small-medium mines and as the basement ofsupply for products of metals to Japan.