{"id":403258,"date":"2021-03-06T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T02:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403258"},"modified":"2021-03-06T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:32:28","slug":"china-to-push-for-building-polar-silk-road-in-arctic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-to-push-for-building-polar-silk-road-in-arctic-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"China to push for building &#8216;Polar Silk Road&#8217; in Arctic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the ice-covered parts of the Arctic Ocean melt due to climate change, China has flagged its interest to take part in building &#8220;Polar Silk Road&#8221;, raising prospects for the emergence of a new sea route.<\/p>\n<p>China will participate in the pragmatic cooperation on the Arctic and the building of a &#8220;Polar Silk Road,&#8221; the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the draft outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for national economic and social development and the long-range objectives to the year 2035. <\/p>\n<p>Both the plans were submitted to China&#8217;s National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC), the country&#8217;s Parliament which began its annual session here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Transpolar Sea Route (TSR) will cut across the centre of the Arctic Ocean, passing close to the North Pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the ice-covered parts of the Arctic Ocean melt due to climate change, China has flagged its interest to take part in building &#8220;Polar Silk Road&#8221;, raising prospects for the emergence of a new sea route. China will participate in the pragmatic cooperation on the Arctic and the building of a &#8220;Polar Silk Road,&#8221; the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the draft outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for national economic and social development and the long-range objectives to the year 2035. Both the plans were submitted to China&#8217;s National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC), the country&#8217;s Parliament which began its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}