Kyrgyzstan is in talks with China about
relocating dozens of Chinese plants and factories to the Central Asian
nation, Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldayev said on Sunday.
China is a major supplier of consumer and
industrial goods to the ex-Soviet Central Asia and an importer of local
commodities such as oil, gas and metals.
Now, Kyrgyzstan, whose economy has been hit hard
by the recession in Russia and a slump in gold output, wanted to have
some of those goods produced on its territory and by its own workers,
Abdyldayev said.
“In the nearest future, we will hand over to the
Chinese side the projects for 40 companies that we plan to implement as
part of a project to move excess production lines from China to
Kyrgyzstan,” he told reporters in comments that followed his meeting
with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Bishkek.
“This must help the new industrialisation of Kyrgyzstan.”
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