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As a major global manufacturing hub, China relies heavily on international transport roads for both imports and exports.
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Maritime shipping remains especially vital, with many roads passing through strategic checkpoints such as the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Hormuz.
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As geopolitical tensions, region conflicts, and logistic disruptions continue to threaten global trade,
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maintaining uninterrupted trade flows has become an increasingly pressing challenge.
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China has responded by expanding alternative transport corridors.
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Located around 400 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan's deep water Wada port once handled fewer than 20 vessels a year.
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But after the Strait of Hormuz was closed, nearly 11,000 20-foot equivalent units were processed during the first four months of this year,
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already exceeding the port's total container volume for all of 2025.
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Wada is also the southern terminus of the 3,000-kilometer China-Pakistan Economic Corridor,
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or CPIC, which stretches from the Casca in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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The corridor provides western China with a direct overland linked to the Middle East and Africa.
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We have been using this route since the 1960s.
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At the time, the infrastructure was very limited.
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Shipping to Gwada allows us to bypass both the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Hormuz.
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It provides a safer transport corridor connecting Pakistan with Central, South and East Asia.
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YC transport offers advantages in terms of large volume and low cost.
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Rain transport has the advantage of speed, making it a leading direction for Chinese businesses in their expansion strategy.
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With the China- Europe freight train goods from Chinese industrial centers can reach Poland,
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Germany and many other parts of Europe in just 12 to 20 days.
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According to the China State Railway Group,
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the number of China-Europe freight train services have increased more than 10-fold over the past decade,
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from more than 1,700 trips in 2016 to more than 20,000 in 2025.
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After the Strait of Hormuz was closed, the China-Europe Railway Express continued operating.
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Although rail cannot match maritime shipping in terms of transport volume, it has demonstrated the value of a diversified connectivity strategy.
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In global economic competition, advantage depends not only in geography or natural resources,
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proso on the ability to maintain and safeguard critical trade flows.
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Countries around the world are seeking to reduce supply chain risk by expanding and diversifying their transport networks.

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Este vídeo tiene 27 frases y 380 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:58. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 128 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 76 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • corridor /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/ (sustantivo) — corredor, andador. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
  • expand /ɪkˈspænd/ (verbo) — ampliar. To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
  • freight /fɹeɪt/ (sustantivo) — transporte de mercancías. The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
  • maritime /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌtaɪm/ (adjetivo) — marítimo. Relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.).
  • infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/ (sustantivo) — infraestructura. An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.
  • strategic /stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/ (adjetivo) — estratégico. Of or pertaining to strategy.
  • rail /ɹeɪ(ə)l/ (sustantivo) — barra, barandilla. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
  • resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ (sustantivo) — recurso. Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
  • connect /kəˈnɛkt/ (verbo) — conectar, empalmar. To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  • increasingly (adverbio) — cada vez más. Increasing in amount or intensity.
  • vital /ˈvaɪtəl/ (adjetivo) — vital. Relating to or characteristic of life.
  • stretch /stɹɛt͡ʃ/ (verbo) — estirar. To lengthen by pulling.
  • fewer /ˈfjuː.ɚ/ — menos. Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
  • rely /ɹɪˈlaɪ/ (verbo) — atenerse, fiarse. To trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
  • vessel /ˈvɛsəl/ (sustantivo) — embarcación, barco. Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • pass through (verbo) — atravesar. To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/, diversify /daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/, kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como corridor, expand, freight.

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahas become · has responded · have increased
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas closed

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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