The project provides for deep processing of mineral raw materials, localisation of production, new jobs and wider exports, the ministry of industry and new technologies said in Asia-Plus’s account at 14:18 Dushanbe. “The cost of the project, the volume of expected investment and the construction timetable of the future industrial park are not yet named,” Pairav Chorshanbiev wrote. The memorandum was signed during the Chinese premier’s official visit, which ended with the SCO heads of government council in Dushanbe, and China’s foreign ministry listed trade, investment, infrastructure, energy and “green minerals” as the fields Beijing is ready to widen. Cost, investment and timetable are not named.
The idea is four years old. In 2022 Tibet-Everest, the parent of the Tajik-Chinese Mining Company, presented a concept for a “world-class industrial park of non-ferrous metals” in the country, Asia-Plus recalled from its own reporting, so the memorandum is a new stage of a project discussed for years.
Cost, investment and timetable are not named.
Tibet-Everest already runs the country’s largest such plant. The second stage of its metallurgical works in Istiklol was commissioned on 21 September 2026, and at design capacity it is to produce up to 30,000 tonnes of refined lead, 1,000 tonnes of copper matte, 40 tonnes of silver and 100 kilograms of gold a year, by the presidential press service’s figures, from ore of the Zarnisor deposit. The company employs about 2,200 people, 95% of them local, and at the opening Rahmon ordered a technology park with deep-processing shops at the plant.
Li Qiang’s visit left five documents in Dushanbe on 20 October, as CAW reported, and this sixth carries no number either. The only hard figures on Thursday’s page belong to the plant already built.