MOSCOW, Sept. 9 -- Sadyk Bolat is a pioneering entrepreneur in Kazakhstan who started doing business with the Chinese decades ago.
In the 1990s, he opened a market in Kazakhstan for Chinese goods and invited some 200 Chinese businessmen to bring over their products. The quality yet affordable goods soon became popular.
Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was put forward in 2013 by China, Bolat has expanded his business to construction, industry and agro-processing.
A KAZAKH PIONEER'S WISH LIST
He has also opened dozens of new trading markets and malls in Kazakhstan, including the Big Shanghai market in Astana, which can accommodate over 10,000 stalls and brings him millions of dollars in rent every month. The market sells fruits and vegetables, construction materials and other goods from China.
In 2016, one of Bolat's companies signed a cooperation agreement with a Chinese enterprise to set up a wheat processing plant in Kazakhstan's northern city of Kostanay and produce mainly flour and starch. This year, a company under Bolat's banner and a Chinese enterprise jointly won the bid to build 100 km of a highway leading to Russia. The construction will start next year. Now Bolat is negotiating with a Chinese tractor factory to establish an agricultural park and manufacture agro-machinery in Astana.
The BRI has brought the entrepreneur not only merchandise trade, but also the models, ways and plans for future development. Today his wish list includes building solar power plants and opening car accessory and car wash centers.
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