Foshan enterprises to sell building materials to Central Asian countries

Scholars suggest that Foshan enterprises to sell building materials to Central Asian countries

The reporter photo coverage: "The Belt and Road" along the country could have many industries, but it is actually not, such as the basic building materials factory, cement plant, power plant, the industrial foundation is weak, is also very welcome to China capital investment in the past, a vast market space." Ministry of Commerce International Trade and Economic Cooperation Institute researcher Zhang Wei said yesterday.

Held yesterday in Foshan city to expand the "The Belt and Road" new market opportunities in preaching the meeting, Zhang Wei introduced the national "The Belt and Road" strategic layout and innovation opportunities for the site more than 400 business representatives.

Zhang Wei, the national "The Belt and Road" strategic coverage mainly involves 65 countries, 4 billion 400 million of the total population, 20 of the multi trillion dollar economy. The strategy to include: the northwest, through Kazakhstan, Mongolia into Russia, then extended to central and Eastern Europe, mainly to carry out trade and energy cooperation; to the southwest, through Central Asia to West Asia, from Turkey into Europe, mainly focused on the construction of strategic resources for geopolitical security; the south, via Pakistan and Burma to India ocean, as the strategic resources of land transport, there is space for future economic and trade cooperation. Among them, the infrastructure and the economic and trade cooperation is an important content of "The Belt and Road construction.

Zhang Wei said, "The Belt and Road along the country's industrial base is weak, the market potential is large, strong willingness to cooperate, these are the market opportunities. Central Asian countries have a population of 70 million, the population size is large, but the purchasing power is not high. "We are studying the market of Central Asian countries, these countries are in the period of infrastructure, steel, building materials market demand, but its own industrial base is very weak. The Central Asian country's per capita income is not high, a large number of residents' income from remittances, there are a lot of middle class, these groups of high building materials product requirements, many people want to buy a house but not built, or no building materials.