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Tajikistan and Tibet-Everest sign for a non-ferrous metals park in Sughd without a sum
The industry ministry, the China Non-ferrous Metals Industry Association and the company Tibet-Everest signed a memorandum on an industrial park for non-ferrous metallurgy in Sughd region during Li Qiang’s visit of 18 to 20 October, Asia-Plus reported on 22 October citing the ministry. Cost, investment and timetable are not named, and the company’s Istiklol plant opened a second stage on 21 September.
Tokayev launches a $1.8 billion KAZ Minerals copper smelter at Aktogay with China’s NFC
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev started construction of a copper smelter at Aktogay in Abai region by video link on 20 October, Akorda reported. KAZ Minerals is the investor, China’s NFC the engineering partner, the investment about $1.8 billion, the jobs more than 1,000, and the first copper cathode is planned for 2030. The plant will also produce gold, silver and by-products.
Li Qiang signs five documents with Dushanbe on the eve of the SCO prime ministers’ council
China’s premier met Rahmon on Monday after talks with Rasulzoda the day before, and the two governments signed a development agreement and four memoranda. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s heads of government meet in Dushanbe on Tuesday, with Mishustin already in the city.
The second China-Mongolia railway has its last beam in place and a 30 million tonne design
The last of 760 prefabricated T-beams was set on Friday 16 October on the Gantsmod-Gashuunsukhait railway, the second cross-border rail link between China and Mongolia after the Erenhot-Zamiin-Uud line of 1956, Xinhua reported from Ulaanbaatar the same day. The 9.91 km route, 6.08 km of it a cross-border bridge, has been under construction since May 2025 and is designed for 30 million tonnes of cargo a year.
Azerbaijan Investment Holding and China's Silk Road Fund set up a $1 billion joint fund
Azerbaijan Investment Holding and the Silk Road Fund are creating a joint investment fund with capital of 7.5 billion yuan, about $1 billion, the holding said on 30 September at the second Azerbaijan International Investment Forum in Baku. The fund grows out of a framework agreement the two signed in April 2025 and will finance projects in Azerbaijan and in other Belt and Road countries.
Georgia and China discuss a joint transport working group with Anaklia as the cornerstone and $7 billion of Georgian infrastructure money to 2032
Economy minister Mariam Kvrivishvili met China’s transport minister Liu Wei to discuss a joint working group across rail, sea, road and civil aviation, with the Anaklia deep-sea port placed “as a cornerstone infrastructure project for the Middle Corridor”, the ministry said in an account bm.ge carried on Wednesday at 13:15. Kvrivishvili put about $7 billion on Georgia’s infrastructure through 2032, and the ministry names the targets: to double the capacity of the maritime and rail networks and to triple airport throughput. The sides discussed direct routes from Tbilisi to Beijing and Guangzhou and cited the initiative adopted at the Global Sustainable Transport Forum in Beijing to raise the capacity, reliability and competitiveness of the Trans-Caspian route.
Kyrgyzstan signs 3 export protocols with China’s customs chief and gets Torugart opened to its grain as it thanks Beijing for fuel
Deputy cabinet chairman Erlist Akunbekov and the head of China’s General Administration of Customs, Sun Meijun, signed 3 protocols on quarantine, sanitary and phytosanitary requirements for Kyrgyz exports at a working meeting during Akunbekov’s visit to China, and agreed that Kyrgyz grain will go to China through the Torugart crossing, open.kg reported on Tuesday night in the account 24.kg carried on Wednesday morning. Akunbekov also thanked the Chinese side for its support in keeping fuel supplies from China to Kyrgyzstan stable, and raised longer working hours at Torugart.
A 56-metre bridge and a $940,000 bill: a Kyrgyz committee clears the agreement that puts the Bedel crossing on the road to China
The Jogorku Kenesh committee on international affairs, defence, security and migration on Tuesday approved a draft agreement with China to build a road bridge over the Uzengi-Kuush river at the Bedel crossing: 56 metres long, 12 wide, 28 metres on each side, each side paying for its own half, 24.kg reported. Kyrgyzstan’s half is put at $940,000 before design review. The bridge is a piece of the 161-kilometre Barskoon to Bedel road, due to finish its main works in 2029 and open in 2030.
China's trade with Tajikistan reaches $1.78 billion in 6 months, a third more than Russia's
The two governments' commission met in Dushanbe on Friday and signed a protocol that lists sectors and no projects. Trade figures published with it put China's $1.78 billion for the first half of 2026 ahead of Russia's $1.32 billion.
A Chinese bidder's 100 MW solar plant opens at Pirsaat; Baku's agencies call it the first project awarded by auction
Universal International Holdings Limited won the site in 2024. The plant in Baku's Garadagh district is to produce about 200 million kilowatt-hours a year and save 45 million cubic metres of gas. Azeri Light printed at $128.03 the same morning.
Zijin, building a $600 million gold plant at Raygorodok, tells Kazakhstan's first deputy prime minister it wants the Shalkiya zinc deposit
Nurlybek Nalibayev met representatives of Zijin Mining Group on Tuesday, the government's site reported at 20:35 Astana time. The Chinese company, which produced more than 1 million tonnes of copper and 90 tonnes of gold in 2025, is putting more than $600 million into a new gold-extraction plant at Raygorodok in Akmola oblast and 'expressed interest' in the Shalkiya lead-zinc deposit in Kyzylorda oblast, a state asset whose own project page still shows a schedule that ended in 2022.
Beijing's Silk Road Fund signs a financing agreement of up to $395 million with Uzbekistan's state bank for toll expressways, in the week the bank joined China's payment rail
The National Bank for Foreign Economic Activity signed the agreement in Hong Kong during prime minister Abdulla Aripov's visit to the Belt and Road summit on 9 and 10 September and disclosed it on Sunday. The priority named is modern toll expressways; the one Hong Kong's Belt and Road office calls its priority, Tashkent-Samarkand, broke ground on 22 August at a cost of $2.2 billion.
Kazakhstan and China sign a policing agreement for the Khorgos trade centre after 14 years of talks
Interior minister Yerzhan Sadenov signed an intergovernmental agreement on security and public order at the Khorgos International Centre of Boundary Cooperation on a working visit to Beijing on 7 September, the ministry said; its spokesman told Tengrinews on Tuesday that the negotiation had taken 14 years. A second agreement gives mutual recognition to the two countries' driving licences.
The first of 27 tunnels on the Kyrgyz section of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is through
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Company reported on Saturday that the Kosh-Dobo North No. 2 tunnel, 209.6 metres long and started in June 2025, had been holed through: the first of the 27 tunnels under construction on the 304.84 km Kyrgyz section of the line from Kashgar to Andijan.
Tashkent and Beijing set a $30 billion target
Mirziyoyev and Xi met in Bishkek on Monday and agreed to lift bilateral trade from about $18 billion to $30 billion, by the Uzbek president's press service.
Beijing puts Xi's Bishkek dates in writing
China's foreign ministry confirmed on Wednesday that Xi Jinping will attend the SCO summit in Bishkek and stay for a state visit to Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz side announced him 37 days ago.
China opens a 10-day door for Kyrgyz passports
Kyrgyz citizens can now transit China without a visa for 240 hours, entering through any of 65 ports, and can spend 30 days in Hainan. The immigration administration's decision took effect on Thursday, 12 days before the summit Bishkek says Xi Jinping will attend.
An oil camp protest in Mongolia ends with an apology recorded by Beijing
A senior Mongolian official apologised to China's charge d'affaires after protesters raided the camp of a Chinese-invested oil explorer, the South China Morning Post reported, citing the Chinese embassy in Ulaanbaatar.
Kyrgyz fuel importers sign with a second Chinese major
The Kyrgyz fuel mission to Xinjiang has turned talks into signatures. Companies travelling with deputy cabinet chairman Erlist Akunbekov signed supply agreements with China National Petroleum Corporation, per a readout published Wednesday, after Monday's session with Sinopec.
Russia's refineries falter, and Bishkek takes its fuel order to Urumqi
Kyrgyzstan's deputy cabinet chairman Erlist Akunbekov brought representatives of more than 10 fuel companies to Sinopec's table in Urumqi on Monday, with a mandate the cabinet's readout states in one line: “Kyrgyzstan is interested in increasing supplies of petroleum products from China.” About 95% of its fuel now comes from Russia, and Russia's refining is under drone attack.