We have formed a marketing alliance to promote tourist programs on the silk road.

创办旅游合作机制来推广丝绸之路旅游项目。

He sees huge growth potential of the tourism market along the silk road.

他表示，丝绸之路沿线的旅游市场有着巨大的发展空间。

Over the past few years, China has been expanding cooperation with countries along the silk road in tourism sector

“近年来，中国与沿线国家旅游合作逐步扩大。

Thanks, Thought Bubble. But the silk road wasn’t all about silk.

谢谢，思想泡泡。 但 丝绸之路并不全是丝绸。

As previously mentioned, the silk road was not a road.

如前所述，丝绸之路不是一条路。

Many merchants on the silk road became strong supporters of monasteries which in turn became convenient weigh stations for caravans.

丝绸之路上的许多商人成为寺院的坚定支持者，寺院又成为商队方便的称重站。

And a third reason the silk road changed all our lives, worldwide interconnectedness of populations led to the spread of disease.

丝绸之路改变我们一生的第三个原因是，世界范围内人口的相互联系导致了疾病的传播。

The silk road of the South went through this city because it was the only access point by ship from South China to the Central Plains.

丝绸之路南路经过这里，因为这里是华南唯一一处可以通过水路进入平原腹地的地方。

The other was Egyptian blue, created by chemists working for the pharoahs thousands of kilometers from China and centuries before the silk road opened up trade between China and the west.

另一个是埃及蓝，在中国千里之外，由法老的药剂师所创造，比丝绸之路连通中西贸易还要早几个世纪。

One of Venice's most famous natives  is Marco Polo. He traveled the silk road to China and was the first European to  encounter the Mongol's use of paper money.

威尼斯最著名的本地人之一是马可波罗。他沿着丝绸之路来到中国， 是第一个发现蒙古人使用纸币的欧洲人。

By then, nomads were being eclipsed by professional merchants who travelled the silk roads, often making huge profits, but those cities that had been founded by nomadic peoples became hugely important.

到那时，游牧民族已经被丝绸之路上的职业商人黯然失色， 他们常常赚取巨额利润， 但游牧民族建立的城市变得非常重要。

So the silk road didn’t begin trade, but it did radically expand its scope, and the connections that were formed by mostly unknown merchants arguably changed the world more than any political or religious leaders.

所以丝绸之路并没有开始贸易，但它确实从根本上扩大了范围， 而且由大多数不知名的商人建立的联系可以说比任何政治或宗教领袖都更能改变世界。