Belarus looks to China's example

Shenzhen, Guangdong province, was a fishing village in the late 1970s. Now, it's a booming economic powerhouse with global reach. Seeing the success, Belarus, in Eastern Europe, is determined to try its luck in repeating the feat over the next 20 years.

China and Belarus are teaming up to turn a remote 90-square-kilometer area beside Minsk airport into a high-tech industrial park.

Focused on high-end manufacturing, chemicals, electronics, information, new materials, bio-tech engineering and logistics, the zone will be open to investors globally, offering preferential polices such as tax breaks and one-stop registration services.