The past decade has seen fruitful cooperation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. Building on their engineering expertise, legions of Chinese builders have undertaken extensive construction projects to help countries and regions involved in the initiative improve their infrastructure and regional connectivity.
The Chinese-built Jatigede Dam in Indonesia's West Java province has become a brand-new icon in China-Indonesia infrastructural cooperation.
"Sir, what are you making?" three children asked Sanjeewa Alwis, an electrical and mechanical engineer of the Colombo Port City in Sri Lanka, when they met on a sunny weekend on the beach.
On May 12, 2023, a grand flag-raising ceremony was held at the China-Belarus Industrial Park, located near Minsk National Airport in the eastern outskirts of Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the inspection tour conducted by the leaders of China and Belarus at the park.
In the vast deserts of Central Asia lies the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline, the first China-built transnational onshore natural gas import pipeline.
Chiyaya, which is about 19 kilometers southeast of Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, has witnessed tremendous development and shaken off poverty since the China National Building Material Group Co., Ltd. (CNBM) built the Zambia Industrial Park there in May 2015.
Amid rolling hills near the small town of Paracambi, a three-hour drive from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, lies a large-scale power transmission facility — the Rio converter station of the Belo Monte phase II ultra-high-voltage (UHV) transmission line project.
The Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, constructed and operated by the China Minmetals Corporation, is the flagship project of China-Peru cooperation in industrial capacity under the Belt and Road Initiative.