These Hunan brands light up the market along the Belt and Road

Since 2013 when the Belt and Road was put forward, the development of “go global” in Hunan Province has stepped into a fast-speed drive, forming eight advantageous industries in Hunan Province of ‘go global’: engineering machinery, rail transportation, great agriculture, energy and power, mineral resource development, infrastructure construction, bio-medicine and light-industry manufacture.

In the first quarter this year, Hunan Province achieved an export of RMB21.69 billion to the countries along the Belt and Road, with a growth rate of 55% which was 13.7% higher than the total year-on-year growth in foreign trade in Hunan Province.

The Belt and Road has enabled these featured industries in Hunan Province to be well known overseas. How have Hunan enterprises been developing in the markets along the Belt and Road? What outcomes have they achieved? Today, we will get you to know about these Hunan enterprises on the Belt and Road.

Engineering machinery

The second largest wind-power project in Africa by Sany

At this Belt and Road Forum For International Cooperation, Sanyi Group will also sign the affordable housing project. With the deepening and promoting of the Belt and Road, Sanyi Group has continued to reinforce the markets along the Belt and Road.

(Project Adama II)

Adama Wind Farm equipped with 102 Sanyi wind turbines is located in Adama, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia, being the second largest wind power project in Africa with a total installation capacity of 153 mw.

The wind farm is in good operation now, with a total of about 1,200 million kW, and this can satisfy 30% of the power need in the capital - Addis Ababa. In addition to the improvement in power supply, this project has also delivered a great number of technicians for the local.

On June 24, 2018, Xu Dazhe, Deputy Secretary of Hunan Provincial Committee and Governor, gave a high appraisal for Adama Project constructed in accordance with Chinese Standard and Sanyi Quality. He expressed that Sanyi is a world-famous engineering machinery brand and a made-in-China name card. He ‘hopes that Sanyi can continue its persistence in international development and make greater contribution to the global economic development as a Hunan company.’

Equipment supplied by Zoomlion for constructing the tallest building in Africa

In May 2018, Hass Tower Project started construction work, which is located in the Upper Hill District, Nairobi, Kenya. Hass Tower is a twin-complex building, with the tallest one up to 300 meters. Upon completion, it will become the tallest building in Africa. The construction contractor and the equipment supplier are respectively two Chinese companies - CSCEC (China State Construction Engineering Corporation) and Zoomlion.

(The tallest building in Africa in construction)

It is reported that this Project is being contracted by Zoomlion for construction, with CSCEC supplying the whole set of equipment including tower cranes, drag pumps, mixer trucks and mixing plant and a solution.

Actually it was in 2010 that equipment from CSCEC started to involve in many major engineering projects in Africa to support the infrastructure construction at the locals, including East and West Super Highway Project in Algeria, New Terminal Project of Capital Airport in Algeria, KU SILE Power Station, construction of South African World Cup Stadium, Railway from Mombasa to Nairobi in Kenya, Outer Ring road of Nairobi in Kenya, Central Line in Tanzania, Airport Project in Zambia, and the Office Building Project of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Headquarters.

Involvement by ‘Road & Bridge Hunan’ in more than 30 projects overseas

Over recent years, Road & Bridge Hunan expedited its “ goglobal” pace. Last year, Hunan Road & Bridge Group received the notice of winning the bidding for Georgia E60 Highway Kve-Ubisa Project at a bidding price of about RMB2 billion. This Project is also the largest single construction project overseas Hunan Road & Bridge Group has contracted so far.

(Georgia E60 Highway Kve-Ubisa Project)

From 1997 to the beginning of the 21st century, Hunan Road & Bridge Group, in virtue of its platform as a state-owned enterprise, had involved in more than 30 projects overseas successively in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Kenya, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

From January to October this year, Hunan Road & Bridge Group opened up overseas markets in Benin, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Nigeria, where five overseas projects were undertaken. The newly-signed contracts were totaled up to a value of RMB4.2 billion, which sees a year-on-year growth rate of up to 414.6%.

Rail transportation

11 orders from Malaysia to CRRC Zhuzhou in 7 years

(On June 13, 2017, at CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd., workers are manufacturing the metro trains to be exported to Pakistan. Photo taken by Guo Liliang, reporter of Hunan Daily)

In April 2017, CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. signed the purchase and sales contracts with Ministry of Transport Malaysia in Changsha for two projects of respectively 13 hybrid EMUs and 9 meter-gauge EMUs. The order value amounted to MYR850 million (equivalent to RMB1.32 billion).

Now, CRRC Zhuzhou has planned EMU 4S shops in Malaysia specialized in the maintenance for the local rail trains. Compared to a traditional commercial mode of single whole-vehicle export, CRRC Zhuzhou has come out a newly-emerged way of internationalized operation combining product, service, technology, investment and management.

Since its service in the market in Malaysia in 2010, by November 2017, CRRC Zhuzhou had obtained eleven orders successively covering nearly 1000 cars of trains.

In addition, CRRC Zhuzhou has also built up a manufacture base in Turkey with an annual capacity of 200 trains or 100 electric locomotives. CRRC Zhuzhou signed contracts with Salvia and Czech Republic on EMUs. CRRC Zhuzhou obtained orders for nearly 50 metro trains successively from Pakistan and India.

Energy and power

Power grid to be paved for countries along the Belt and Road

The countries along the Belt and Road such as Ethiopia, Laos, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire where there are abundant resources of water and power, are, however, suffering from lacking in power for a long term. With the moving forward of major energy cooperation projects on the Belt and Road, advanced technologies in power grid in Hunan Province are being used to pave a smart and highly efficient power grid.

(Houaphanh, Laos ~ a signing ceremony for 500 kV transmission line Project from Laos to the Vietnamese border)

In November 2017, Hunan Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China Energy Engineering Group won the Houaphanh of Laos to the Vietnamese border 500 kV transmission line Project. In 2018, it signed again a cooperative agreement on 115/220kv substation at Phonsavan and 115kv transmission line and a cooperative agreement on 115kv transmission line from Pakmong of Laos to MuangViengkham.

Xiangjiang Electric Power Construction Group Co., Ltd. has also completed many power transmission & distribution projects in the countries along the Belt and Road, especially in The Republic of Djibouti, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Ghana. The transmission and distribution project of Soubre hydroelectric power station in Cote d'Ivoire is one of them.

(The completed Soubre hydroelectric power station in Cote d'Ivoire, with the picture sourced from Sinohydro Bureau 5 Co., Ltd.)

The transmission and distribution project of Soubre hydroelectric power station was successfully put into power generation at the end of 2016, which has greatly improved the power supply situation in Cote d'Ivoire ever since and strongly guarantees the development of economic sectors including industry and mining.

Great agriculture

Sowing Hunan elements along the Belt and Road

The first stage of a project for cooperation in agricultural technology with the aid of Yuan Long Ping High-Tech Agriculture Co., Ltd. (as Longping High-Tech) has been completed with the project acceptance recently. This project has taken three years to grow hybrid rice of Longping High-Tech in 5 provinces in Nepal and has achieved an increase in yields of up to 40% to 100%.

(It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. China began the first stage of a project sponsoring Nepal for cooperation in agricultural technology from February 25, 2016.)

In recent years, Longping High-Tech has completed human resource development projects between the governments – 149 human resource trainings given to nearly 10,000 trainees in more than 100 countries along the Belt and Road.

Longping Rice of Hunan is providing a spectacle of good harvest across the land on the Belt and Road.

(Rice in Laos is famous for its growth in an original ecosystem. With the mutual efforts of both Hunan Xuanye Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. (Hunan Xuanye) and Laos, Laotian rice they produced came to the market in China officially in 2016.)

Hunan Xuanye Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. has its roots in agricultural land in the south of Laos by applying Chinese technology and outcomes of Chinese standards to rice growing and processing procedures in Laos, which ends the Laotian history of zero export of rice. During this process, the local farmers have been greatly encouraged to grow rice, and productive efficiency and yields have been increased while the originality and zero pollution of Laotian rice still continue.

Hunan Xuanye has begun to create a new type agricultural industry park in Vientiane, trying to synchronize with the China-Laos Railway Road in construction, to develop a large-size eco-agricultural project combining agricultural products breeding and process, storage and logistics, trading and display, and scientific research and trainings.

Eco-medicine

Er-kang Pharmaceutical: building up an industry park in Cambodia

In 2013, Hunan Er-kang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (as Er-kang Pharmaceutical) registered Hunan Er-kang (Cambodia) Investment Co., Ltd. in the Kingdome of Cambodia to mainly supply natural and pollution-free tapioca starch to starch capsule customers in the globe so as to solve the problem of toxic capsule that has troubled the medicine field for many years.

(A plant area of Wangkang Biochemical Co., Ltd.)

Hunan Er-kang (Cambodia) Investment Co., Ltd. established Wangkang Biochemical Co., Ltd. in July 2014, which is mainly engaged in production of new type plasticizer made from plants - tricaprylyl citrate to mainly solve the problem of plasticizer. Starch series products it produces are distributed mainly to the countries and regions in Europe, America and South Asia and citrate series products to the developed countries in Europe and America.

Currently Er-kang Pharmaceutical Industry Park in Cambodia has become a key park to develop by Hunan Province for the Belt and Road.

Aier Eye: to bring brightness to cataract patients by the side of Mekong River

In Myanmar, cataract is a high-incidence disease, with more than 300,000 people out of a population of more than 50 million being cataract patients. But there are only more than 300 eye doctors in Myanmar, resulting in a fact that many low-income patients remain untreated for many years of being sick.

(Gong Yongxiang, Head of The international medical aid team of Aier Eye and Director of Kunming AIER Eye Hospital, is checking the patient.)

Aier Eye from Hunan, as a medical aid agency nominated for Mekong Brightness Action and the Belt and Road – Love of Emigrants and Brightness Action, has set its feet on every corner of the two countries and four regions along the Mekong River including Philippines, Cambodia and Thailand and brought brightness to nearly a thousand cataract patients in poverty.

Over the past years, China has continuously dispatched Brightness Action Medical Team for operations free of charge on a large number of cataract patients in Myanmar, who are highly recognized by the local people.

Within more than five years after the Belt and Road was put forward, Hunan Province has 755 companies registered for investment overseas, with a contracted investment from China side amounting to USD10.45 billion and an actual investment to USD7.19 billion in 92 countries and regions. An investment of such size ranks one of the top in the whole country and the 6th in the six provinces in central China for a long term.

This year, according to the plan by Department of Commerce of Hunan Province, there are two major areas for the Belt and Roadconstruction: ASEAN Region and Africa, including 10 countries, namely, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cote d'Ivoire, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Brazil, Senegal and Poland.

Hunan enterprises are walking on the Belt and Road and also to the international market.