The Silk Route: A New Development Model?

This article is about the significant development actually and visibly shown by the Popular Republic of China which, since several decades ago, has shown to the world, through its government and people, that orderly and well-planned work, with concrete goals and through several reforms along with a permanent strife against corruption, always looking towards future, has transformed China into a fully undeniable global power, an object of admiration in some cases, of concern in other cases and, always, an object of wondering... What has this millenary nation done to be regarded, in the 21st century, as the second (maybe the first, already) economy in the world?