To understand the contemporary structure of Chinese thinking, we must start from an articulated approach between classical thinking and contemporary thinking. The truth is that we cannot analyse this thinking on the basis of a dicotonic or binary approach, but on the contrary, in the context of hybridity that seeks (des) to be legitimised according to the political circumstances of each moment, as well as through the reading of China’s foreign policy. In this regard, China’s New Silk Route could be an important exponent to analyse the Asian giant’s matrix of thinking, as this mega-project, as well as generating the material conditions for its realisation, will need to generate a legitimate narrative in the territories it will have to cross in order to ensure not only its materiality but also its sustainability. In short, the NRS should be created as a political-cultural (geo) discourse in order to move to the level of materiality and thus be able to symbolically legitimise international representation and perception. In the framework of the Specialisation in Chinese Studies of the Institute of International Relations (IRI-UNLP) this inclusive final work aims to build a bridge between the Chinese cultural matrix and its relationship with the NRS project. Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences