The Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek Japarov took part in the opening of China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Company LLC in Bishkek.
He congratulated the Chinese delegation on the 75th anniversary of founding of the PRC and emphasized the importance of the railway for the entire Central Asian region.
«We highly value this project and call it the construction of the century. This will bring the economic interaction between China and the Central Asian countries to a qualitatively new level,» he said.
According to him, construction of the railway will contribute to the deepening of trade and economic cooperation in the entire region, especially Kyrgyzstan, China and Uzbekistan.
The head of the Cabinet also recalled the words of the great politician Deng Xiaoping: «Whether it is the Silk Road or the railway, if it contributes to the development of the economies of our countries, then it is a good road.»
According to him, the construction of China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway will become part of the Great Silk Road.
The opening of China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Company LLC was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Kyrgyzstan Du Dewen, Deputy Director of the Department for Foreign Capital Administration and Provision of Investment Abroad of the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China, head of the Chinese delegation Zhang Jianhua, Minister of Transport of Uzbekistan Ilkhom Makhkamov, and General Director of China Railway International Zhou Xing.
