Advancing Toward The West.docVIP

Advancing Toward The West 　　Sam Zhang， a 40-year-old bespectacled man with a Shandong accent， relishes a recent expansion of business territory into Central Asia by Wuzheng Group， an agricultural machinery manufacturer based in Rizhao， east China’s Shandong Province. 　　“We have formed a special team to explore countries like Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan， and plan to shift some resources and attention from previously cultivated markets， such as Africa and South America to the relatively unexploited region，” Zhang told Beijing Review， confirming that they managed to blaze a path by exporting more than 100 farm machines to Uzbekistan last year. 　　“It’s only the beginning，” Zhang added. The same is true for the Silk Road Economic Belt， which was put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Kazakhstan in September 2013. Since then， the five countries in Central Asia， an integral section of the ancient Silk Road， have gradually worked out an integrating point between their national development strategies and the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt. 　　“A series of achievements have been made since the grand initiative was put forward. As it proceeds， the cooperation between China and Central Asia will embrace a golden era，” said Meng Jianzhu， a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee， at the Third China-Central Asia Cooperation Forum held in Rizhao in June. 　　As the initiator of the Silk Road Economic Belt， China has proven that it has grown into a powerful engine driving global growth and is capable of fueling up other nations through its own stable development， said Uzbekistan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov. 　　To keep up with the tide， some Chinese enterprises have set out to exploit commercial opportunities in fields such as agricultural machinery， automobile， small commodities， etc. 　　 Overseas expedition 　　Perceiving the declining domestic demand for wine bottle caps， Chung Hing Pack