Belt and Road brings enormous opportunities for Kyrgyzstan, says official

STORY: Belt and Road brings enormous opportunities for Kyrgyzstan, says official DATELINE: Oct. 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:37 LOCATION: Bishkek CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in Kyrgyzstan 2. SOUNDBITE (Russian): ZHALYN ZHEENALIEV, Deputy director of the National Investment Agency under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic STORYLINE: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has opened up enormous development opportunities for Kyrgyzstan, a Kyrgyz official has said. Kyrgyzstan-China relations have been developing intensively in recent decades and today they are characterized as strategic, said Zhalyn Zheenaliev, deputy director of the National Investment Agency under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. He said that over the past 10 years, the main investment partner of Kyrgyzstan has been China, and in general, 33 percent of the attracted investments came from China. SOUNDBITE (Russian): ZHALYN ZHEENALIEV, Deputy director of the National Investment Agency under the President of the Kyrgyz Re