Central Asia, East European nations boost infrastructure efforts

Countries in Central Asia and East Europe are planning to build more roads, warehouses and logistics centers to cash in on the growing trade opportunities from China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Daulet Yergozhin, chairman of the State Revenue Committee under the Kazakhstan Ministry of Finance, said the country has completed a 4,800-kilometer highway in European standards earlier this year to connect China and Europe on the Silk Road Economic Belt.

"We will also build more roads to connect different nations in Central Asia, as well as build a large transshipment center at Alfynkol and an international railway station in the eastern part of the country to compete with maritime transportation between China and Europe," Yergozhin said.