The last missing link on the Silk Road was completed in 1994, when the international railway between Almaty in Kazakhstan and Urumqi in Xinjiang opened.

• 丝绸之路上最后缺少的一环于1994年，开通了哈萨克斯坦的阿拉木图与新疆乌鲁木齐之间的国际铁路的时候完成。