News / China builds Central Asia infrastructure dominance with new rail plan

China will strengthen its dominance of the transport infrastructure in Central Asia with plans to enhance rail connections between the people’s republic and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

Kazakh president Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev told the Eurasian Economic Forum developing a new Bakhty-Ayagoz rail link on the border between Kazakhstan and China was under way and would greatly reduce transit times.

“It is crucial to build links with the key political and economic partner of the union as it is both our largest shipper and ...