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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.
Kazakhstan and China sign 10 agreements in Almaty on a day of mourning: Tokayev’s $50 billion of trade, a target of $100 billion, and a morning that had promised 40 documents
The Kazakhstan-China Investment Forum opened in Almaty on Friday with a minute of silence for the servicemen lost in the Caspian and had 10 agreements on its list by mid-afternoon, one of them carrying a number: wind stations of 450 MW in Akmola region with SUNGROW. President Tokayev put last year’s trade at a record of almost $50 billion, the target at $100 billion, China’s investment in Kazakhstan at more than $29 billion and the enterprises with Chinese capital at more than 9,000, and proposed to hold the meeting every September as the Almaty Investment Dialogue. In the morning the organiser, Kazakh Invest, had expected more than 40 commercial documents worth several billion dollars.
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.
Uzbekistan’s biggest bank joins China’s payment rail as Astana and Tashkent link their QR codes
The National Bank of Uzbekistan became the country’s first direct participant in CIPS, China’s yuan clearing system, on 9 September and, during a Hong Kong visit on 9 and 10 September, agreed a $250 million bond in yuan and som for the Hong Kong exchange with CICC; on Friday Kazakhstan’s National Payment Corporation and Uzbekistan’s HUMO signed up to accept each other’s QR codes. Two new pipes are going into the region’s payment plumbing.
China's fuel promise to Mongolia gets a number: 17,000 tonnes for September, and a 20-year frame around it
CNPC will ship Mongolia 10,000 tonnes of petrol, 4,000 tonnes of jet fuel and 3,000 tonnes of diesel this month, the industry ministry said on Thursday, 9 days after Montsame reported Xi Jinping's promise of fuel with no tonnage attached. The petrol covers about a sixth of the month's book; the diesel about 2%. The larger object in the readout is a memorandum the two sides now intend to sign: 20 years of crude, refinery feedstock and coal chemicals, with a price formula and a rail chain still to be written.
Serbia's president says Uzbekistan's second nuclear plant is being built with China, and Tashkent has named no partner
Aleksandar Vučić told the Uzbek-Serbian business forum in Belgrade on Tuesday that Shavkat Mirziyoyev had told him that morning, one to one, that one nuclear plant is being built with the Russians and another with the Chinese, and that this is not enough for him. Uzbekistan's own record holds one plant, at Jizzakh with Rosatom, and a promise made on 17 August to prepare a second, partner unnamed. If the host heard right, Tashkent is copying the formula Astana chose last year: Rosatom for the first plant, CNNC for the second, and the price as the lever between them.
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.
KazMunayGas settles its yuan bond today at less than half the coupon of the dollars it is buying back
Wednesday is the day the two money tracks touch: 3.5 billion yuan of new bonds settle at 2.3% and 2.8%, and the early deadline for tendering the company's 5.375% dollar notes closes at 17:00 New York time. The gap between the two coupons is the price Kazakhstan's oil company now puts on borrowing in Beijing's currency.
Uzbekistan's new fighters are Chinese, and the footage is the announcement
State television's independence-anniversary film showed at least 6 J-10CE jets in Uzbek insignia at the Karshi-Khanabad air base. That makes Uzbekistan the second foreign operator of the type after Pakistan and the first Central Asian operator of a modern Chinese fighter; neither government has published a contract.