The book introduces the background, strategic significance, and general objectives of the Silk Road Economic Belt initiative. It stresses on the systematic analyses to the economic area of the Silk Road Economic Belt (the land route), and gives specific explanation to issues like the interconnectivity among countries along the Silk Road, trade and investment, production capacity cooperation, urbanization, development obstacles, guarantee mechanism, and so forth. The economic status and cooperation prospect for related countries are therefore exhibited before the readers. The book further puts forward with a series of suggestions with solutions to some difficulties.