Yichang active in the Belt and Road Initiative
2023-10-20 09:10:43
By Shen Yuan, Yichang International Communication Studio
Yegor, a Russian businessman, visiting the Three Gorges Yichang High-Quality Agricultural Products (Green Food) Expo 2023 on October 14 stood beside a stall with an orange in his hand.
What Yegor may not know is that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
In 2017, Yichang launched China-Europe freight trains, transporting Yichang citrus to Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other places.
Huang Qiong, from Yichang, works at Angel Yeast's Russian factory. Also buying oranges, she happily pointed out the "Yichang" sticker—a nostalgic reminder of her hometown.
In Pakistan's Punjab province, farmer Khalid manages a 3,000-acre estate cultivating wheat, cotton and potatoes. After 10 years of using Yihua Group's diammonium phosphate as a fertilizer, yields have increased by an average of 10-12 percent.
Yihua Group is based in Yichang. Yichang is also a major fertilizer production center, accounting for about 50 percent of China's total fertilizer production.
Yichang firms are also involved in project contracting in other countries. In 2013, Yichang's first overseas-invested production plant, Angel Yeast, was inaugurated on the banks of the Nile River. It provides more than 400 local jobs.
In 2019, China Energy Construction Gezhouba Group completed the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower plant in Pakistan, helping address that country’s 15% power shortage. The project has already generated 45 billion rupees (2.7 billion yuan) in fiscal revenue.
MD Arif, a student from Bangladesh, graduated from Three Gorges University with an electrical engineering degree in 2021. After a six-month internship at China's Yaoposhan Wind Power Plant, he joined the Cox's Bazar wind power plant team.
The project – Bangladesh's first large-scale wind power plant in the southeastern Cox's Bazar district – is part of the Belt and Road Initiative.
