Xinhua News Agency’s “One Belt, One Road” Global Tour Central Asia team recently visited Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. They were delighted to find that because a number of early-harvest projects along the Silk Road Economic Belt adhere to the concept of green development, the local economic structure and Manufacturing capabilities are being gradually optimized, and the “Green Silk Road” is turning from imagination into reality.
In the Danggala Basin of Tajikistan, which has a history of two to three thousand years of cotton cultivation, the reporter noticed that the largest 60,000-spindle spinning workshop in Central Asia invested by Zhongtai (Dangala) New Silk Road Textile Industry Co., Ltd. has been built. After only a few months of trial production of yarn, the workshop’s products have been exported to Russia, Turkey, Italy, Poland and other countries.
Company chairman Xiao Ruixin said that Tajikistan has always regarded cotton as an important national strategic material. The characteristic of the Sino-Thailand project is that it uses the world’s leading production technology and closely integrates agricultural planting with industrial production. It not only changes the local cotton planting methods, and improve the raw material deep processing industry chain, expand agricultural development potential, and increase tax revenue for the country.
According to Xiao Ruixin, Zhongtai’s equipment is purchased from the Swiss Rieter Group, a world-leading spinning equipment manufacturer with technology, and its spinning machine length is the longest in the world. Due to the adoption of the most advanced international Swiss Uster standards in production, yarn produced in Tajikistan has a pass to enter the high-end market.
In order to promote the application of new technologies, Zhongtai also selected 38 Tajik employees with development potential to study in Wuxi, Jiangsu for six months. These employees later became the technical backbone of the company. According to the overall plan, the textile factory will also carry out weaving, printing and dyeing, and garment production in the next step. It will also adopt world-leading environmentally friendly processes. It is expected to help 3,000 people find employment, and annual sales are expected to reach 1 billion somoni (1 The U.S. dollar is approximately 7.87 somoni), and the profits and taxes paid are 100 million somoni.
Xiao Ruixin said that textile sounds like a traditional industry, but in fact, with the qualitative improvement of relevant international latest technologies, the technological content and environmental protection concepts of textile production have undergone tremendous changes. “Our goal is to give full play to Tajikistan’s geographical advantages and export high value-added textile products to all parts of the world based on the advantages of raw materials, equipment and technology.” “Green Silk Road”: From imagination to reality
