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Author(s):: CHENG Zhong-xing; School of Public Affairs & law, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, Sichuan, China

Keywords:: “One Belt and One Road”; “traffic coordination”; strategic concept; psychological distance; spatial production

Abstract:: This paper analyzed the traffic and coordination in strategic concept and spatial production of “One Belt and One Road”. The results show that “One Belt and One Road” is a traffic economic belt in pursuit of peaceful development, in which traffic is the supporting point of the whole strategy, coordination is the object of the whole strategy, and “traffic coordination” is the core concept of Chinese traditional philosophy and the core category of modern regional science.“Traffic coordination”sublates binaryopposition concept in western political philosophy, providing a strategic high point of avoiding political tragety of great power. The essence of “One Belt and One Road” is some kind of spatial production, and the essence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Silk Road Fund is some kind of distance investment. The steel casting New Silk Road can shorten the geographic distance between the countries along the road, while the shortening of psychological distance depends on activating the memory of ancient Silk Road histoty and making it the internal impetus of communication with the countries along the road. Whether the geographic and psychological distance can be shortened is the key point of the success of “One Belt and One Road” strategy. 