To build “the Belt and Road ”，Gansu faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges. In conscientiously implementing central government's decisions and arrangements, the Party committee and provincial government of Gansu snatches the opportunities to propose the strategic layout of integrating into the building of the national “Belt and Road” more vigorously, with the working concept of whole-hearted devotion to making Gansu the golden part of the Silk Road Economic Belt. Early in May 2014, it had designed to introduce the "Overall Plan of Building 'Silk Road Economic Belt' Gansu Part", which achieved positive progress and primary effects during one year's period: upon the foundation of studying and identifying its own strategic orientation, sticking to the national overall strategic layout and combining with Gansu's advantages in location, resouces, culture, industry and platform, Gansu provincial Party committee and provincial government clearly put forward the strategic orientation and target to speed up building Gansu as the golden part of Silk Road Economic Belt ; designed and implemented the "13685" development strategy, which are: centering around "one conception" of making Gansu as the golden part of Silk Road Economic Belt, establishing "three platforms" of Lanzhou New Area, Dunhuang international culture and tourism city and Chinese Silk Road Expo,focusing on the promotion of "six projects" in road connectivity, economic and trade exchanges, industry connection and cooperation, new economic growth poles, humanity exchanges and cooperation and strategic platform building, further upgrading "eight nodes" of major node-cities of Lanzhou-Baiyin, Jiuquan-Jiayuguan, Jinchang-Wuwei, Pingliang-Qingyang, Tianshui, Dingxi, Zhangye and Dunhuang, working hard to achieve the "five goals" of building Gansu as the golden passageway for Silk Road Economic Belt, strategic platform of opening to the west, regional center of economic, trade and logistics, demonstration base for industry cooperation and intermedium of humanity exchanges. In order to speed up the implementation of this overall plan of building Gansu as the golden passageway for Silk Road Economic Belt, at present, priorities should be focused on the following four aspects: First, make the golden part really "passable" , further boost the building of connectivity; Secondly, make the golden part really "bright", further establish the platform of opening to the west; Thirdly, make the golden part really "alive", further accelerate the pace of economic and trade cooperation; And fourthly, make the golden part really "strong", further grasp the building of node-cities effectively.
