By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road had covered almost 6,500 kilometers.

到了中国的丝绸贸易成为世界重要贸易时，丝绸之路已经覆盖了将近6500公里。

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Later, Chinese zhi spread to the West via the Chinese Silk Road.

后来，中国纸通过丝绸之路传到了西方。

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By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers.

到中国的丝绸贸易在世界上变得重要的时候，丝绸之路已经长达6500公里。

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Silk touches the lives of rural Chinese in more material ways, too, in the form of the silk clothes, quilts, umbrellas, fans and flowers that punctuate everyday life.

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Despite years of Japanese imitation and decades of increased silk cultivation throughout the world, there is no beating Chinese silk thread.

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In the framework of the 6th edition of the Escale the town of Lacanau (Gironde), visitors are invited to follow the Silk Road as far as the Chinese border in the footsteps of the great travellers of the past.

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