The “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “China Dream” are tightly linked together rather than isolated from each other.The essence of the construction of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” is to give equal considerations to both the East and the West, paying equal attentions to the North and the South, while balancing the land and the sea and connecting domestic with foreign. This is the innovation and priority of China’s peripheral diplomacy as well as a strategic support and tactical guarantee of the “China Dream”. The “Silk Road Economic Belt” is constructed to make history serve reality; it exchanges economy for politics, space on land for time at sea, and balances a weakness in sea power with superiority in land power. Instead of simply replicating the Silk Road, the “Silk Road Economic Belt” possesses a broaderrealm and a richer context. Moreover, this is China’s ultimate strategy and profound tactical conception facing toward the future.

“丝绸之路经济带”与“中国梦”不是相互孤立的，而是高度关联的。丝绸之路经济带建设的实质是东西兼顾，南北并重，海陆平衡，内外联通，是中国周边外交的创新内容和优先方向，也是实现“中国梦”的战略支撑和策略保障。建设“丝绸之路经济带”，就是要历史为现实服务，以经济换政治，以陆上空间换海上时间，以陆权优势平衡海权劣势。“丝绸之路经济带”不是古丝绸之路的简单复制，它有更宽广的领域和更丰富的内涵，是中国面向未来的宏大战略和深邃策略构想。

Xing Li, Wan Wang.The “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “China Dream” Relationship: A Strategy or Tactic[J].Sociology Study, March 2015,Vol.5, No.3, 169‐175.