About Eurasian Transcontinental Transport Corridors and Economic Axes

Abstract

The article deals with the formation of high-speed Eurasian transcontinental transport corridors between the three huge and active interaction of economic spaces of China, Russia and the European Union and the subsequent formation of economic axes along them as areas of priority development. Their formation in the context of globalization and the intensification of foreign economic relations and, at the same time, increasing competition, geopolitical tensions in the world is seen as a real mechanism of the strategic alliance of the Eurasian continental space, creating conditions for sustainable development of its economy and the improvement of geopolitical relations between the poles. Along with the issues of construction or modernization of transcontinental transport corridors and formation along them economic axes "East-West", creation of high-speed transportation corridor and economic axis "North-South" along the Pacific coast of China and Russia are also discussed.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s2p328