The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway (CKU)
Location: Osh region, Kyrgyzstan
Sector: Infrastructure
Source of funding: No information available
Total cost: USD 2.5 bln to USD 3 bln
Implementer (Operator/Constructor): China’s National Machinery Import & Export Corporation
Start (of construction): No information available
Planned completion: No information available
INVESTORS SUMMARY
China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation (CMC) was founded in 1950. It was one of the major foreign trade corporations affiliated to the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (the predecessor of the Ministry of Commerce). Its main business covers international project contracting and large complete equipment exports, domestic trade and engineering, automotive marketing, and other sectors. In 1998, CMC became a founding member and wholly-owned enterprise of China General Technology (Group) Holding Ltd. (Genertec), which is an important backbone state-owned enterprise under the direct supervision of the central government. Currently, CMC is an important international engineering contractor, project manager, and automotive supply chain service provider in China. Its main business covers international project contracting and large complete equipment exports, domestic trade and engineering, automotive marketing, and other sectors. In the future, under the strategic guidance of One Belt, One Road and Go Global policies, CMC will focus on both domestic and international markets so as to realize the strategic transformation towards a specialized international engineering contractor, a specialized project management provider and a specialized automotive supply chain integrated service provider and to achieve greater progress in transformation and development.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
The construction of a railway line crossing Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan is designed to boost for Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan's trade with China. Though only some 450 to 500 kilometers long, the route is aimed at traveling through the mountains of western China and Kyrgyzstan, sometimes at altitudes of 2,000 to 3,500 meters, and requires the construction of nearly 50 tunnels and more than 90 bridges. The line would start in Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region, and run through Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan's eastern town of Pap, in Uzbekistan's section of the Ferghana Valley. By this project, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, construction will guarantee the further development of transport infrastructure, as well as provide access to the ports of the Persian Gulf and the Pacific. The railway will contribute to the development of the Osh province in the south of Kyrgyzstan, and new jobs will be created. The region can export meat, milk, honey and drinking water to China.
LINKS
https://jamestown.org/program/kyrgyzstan-and-china-move-closer-to-joint-railroad-construction/
https://www.rferl.org/a/qishloq-ovozi-kyrgyzstan-uzbekistan-china-railway/28713485.html