The cooperation between China and Kazakhstan within the Belt and Road Initiative has been further enhanced after a new shipping route was opened to help Kazakhstan exporting its agricultural products to Southeast Asia from the Lianyungang Port in east China's Jiangsu Province.
This shipping project is a pioneer project aims to link Eurasia with Southeast Asia under the Belt and Road Initiative. Since its launch last year, hundreds of tons of wheat from Kazakhstan have been shipped through the port to Southeast Asia on a regular basis.
"The Lianyungang Port was chosen for shipping wheat from Kazakhstan because firstly, the Lianyungang Port serves as a sea gate for the Central Asian countries. Also, through the Lianyungang Port, the time for us to ship grains to Southeast Asia is shorter," said Yessengulov Darkhan, a Kazakh employee of the international affairs department of the Lianyungang China-Kazakhstan International Logistics Co., LTD.
The passage marked the first land transfer of Kazakhstan-grown wheat via China, which was made possible by the China-Kazakhstan Logistics Center built at the port.
"Thanks to the efforts of Chinese and Kazakh railway authorities, a full-service logistics chain was put in place to guide the process from purchase to trade to sales. In particular, the COSCO shipping group has also joined this project," said Liu Bin, the general manager of the Lianyungang China-Kazakhstan International Logistics Co., LTD.
Liu says the main function of the center is to serve as a transfer station, clearing the way for businesses to reach their international clients.
Lianyungang Port not only serves to boost China-Kazakhstan trade, but also aids in the development of other countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt.
"The cooperation with members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has been further enhanced and upgraded. The cooperation between China and Kazakhstan is a starting point and serves as an important platform for us to materialize the Belt and Road Initiative," said Ding Rui, the chairman of the Jiangsu Lianyungang Port Co.
So far more than 50 million tons of wheat from Kazakhstan have been handled at the Lianyungang Port this year. Ding says the next breakthrough for the project is to extend the industrial chain, to be specific, negotiating with his Kazakh partners to process their wheat locally, which will further boost bilateral trade between China and Kazakhstan.
Sources:cctvplus
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