The initiative driving gaming along Asia's old Silk Route.

Silk route Source: NASA_Goddard Space Flight Center_Splette_Wikipedia

WHILE Beijing’s anti-corruption drive has often been blamed as a primary factor behind the slump in Macau’s gaming revenue, the same regime is also responsible for proposing and supporting another initiative that may have widespread implications for the development of the Asian gaming industry - the “One Belt and One Road” project.

During a state visit to Kazakhstan on September 7, 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that China and the Central Asian countries build an “economic belt” along the historic Silk Road, a trans-Eurasian project from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea.

Read the full article in the March issue of InterGaming