Where the Silk Road started in those days has always been the focus of people's attention. After Luoyang was identified as the starting point of the eastern end of the Silk Road in April this year, Anyang, the ancient historical capital, also gave up its silence and stood up for its position on the Silk Road.

Yesterday, after visiting yue fei memorial and Licheng in Tangyin, a delegation from the Master Plan of Silk Road Tourist Area of National Tourism Administration 10 arrived in Anyang, the ancient capital, under the leadership of Zuo Li, vice president of Jingfengfeng Intellectual Industry Organization and head of the research team. He also had a discussion with Yang, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Anyang Municipal People's Congress, Wang Jianbang, deputy secretary-general of the municipal government, director of the Municipal Tourism Bureau, and cultural experts from Yinshang on the overall planning of the Silk Road tourist area.

At the symposium, Guo Xudong, executive director and deputy secretary-general of China Yinshang Culture Research Association and professor of anyang normal University, first spoke and questioned the determination of the starting point of the eastern end of the Silk Road. He pointed out that more than 300 of the 755 jade articles unearthed from the tomb of a good woman at the site of the ancestral temple in the Palace of Yin Ruins were Hetian jade, which proved that Xinjiang and Anyang had trade contacts during the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Subsequently, Dr. Yue Hongbin, vice-captain of Anyang Archaeological Team, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Du Jiuming, director of the site management office of Yinxu Palace and Temple in Anyang, and other six experts cited horse bones and Oracle Bone Inscriptions with silkworm cocoons found in the archaeological site of Yinxu, and demonstrated to the experts of the research group that there was a "jade road" across China as early as 3,000 years ago. It is this "Jade Road" that is the predecessor and preparation of the Silk Road and inspired the "Silk Road" that rose more than 200 years later. Therefore, the starting point of the Oriental Silk Road is not Luoyang at all, but Anyang, the ancient capital of Yin and Shang Dynasties.