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Chinas State Council recently approved building the China (Xinjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone as a demonstration model of high-quality development for central and western regions....

The US-sanctioned Chinese region borders eight countries, including Russia, Pakistan and other trade partners that should benefit from a plan to create new manufacturing and innovation hubs in Xinjiang.

The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project is an ambitious undertaking, with its path needing dozens of tunnels and bridges to traverse high altitudes in the challenging mountainous terrain of western China and Kyrgyzstan. But the railroad's biggest obstacle is probably funding.

All three countries have different, if convergent, goals for their trilateral cooperation, headlined by the Power of Siberia 2 mega-project.

As China marks the 10th anniversary of its global infrastructure project this year, CNA visits Central Asia, where the BRI was first set in motion, to take stock of the changes that have occurred.

ASTANA. Oct 11 (Interfax-Kazakhstan)- The first stage of construction of China-Kazakhstan International Industrial City project has started on the territory of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Khorgos - Eastern Gate in the Zhetysu region, SEZ press service reported.

There’s a rail revolution underway in Central Asia and Kazakhstan is leading the effort, using railways to bring political independance.

Part one in a series commemorating the 10-year anniversary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, this article examines the original goals underpinning Xi Jinping’s landmark foreign policy.

More than 20 foreign journalists from 14 countries have been participating in an eight-day media event “Approaching the Core Area on ‘the Silk Road Economic Belt,’ visiting a number of cities in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from Wednesday.

The Central Asian nation is taking advantage of its strategic location to diversify away from its traditional dependence on Russia. Despite fears of Chinese colonisation, it has succeeded in aligning the belt and road projects with its own development plan, something that can be a lesson for other middle powers.