City turns to history to shape its future

Luoyang builds development plans around its position at start of Silk Road

During the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), merchants, politicians and other urban dwellers set out from Luoyang in Henan province in Central China to carry out cultural exchanges and trade.

The routes along which their travels took them, spreading across regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West, became the Silk Road.