Recently, Tashkent was in the midst of summer. Ouyang Jinquan, Deputy Mayor of Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province, led an economic and trade delegation to Uzbekistan and held intensive talks with the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade, Chamber of Commerce, and Electronic and Electrical Industry Association; At the same time, on July 8, 2026, in the Uzbekistan Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade building in Tashkent, Minister Raziz Kudlatov shook hands with Cao Shuang, Managing Director of BYD Central Asia and the Caucasus, and sat down for several hours to discuss the expansion of the second phase of the Jizak joint venture factory, the improvement of component localization rate, and the export of complete vehicles to Central Asia and the CIS market. China's new energy vehicle industry chain is deeply rooted in Central Asia along the the Belt and Road

Sign multi field economic and trade investment cooperation agreements

The delegation led by Ouyang Jinquan, Deputy Mayor of Zhongshan City, conducted a working visit to Uzbekistan under the coordination of the Uzbekistan Consulate General in Guangzhou. They held trilateral talks with the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Electronic and Electrical Industry Association of Uzbekistan, and both sides agreed to establish a normalized mechanism for industrial cooperation and enterprise exchange. The delegation focused on docking with Bukhara Prefecture, investing in and setting up factories in advantageous industries such as lighting, home appliances, and furniture in Zhongshan with the governor. They also sent economic and trade delegations to participate in exhibitions and forums in both places, reached consensus on setting up product exhibition halls in Bukhara and Zhongshan, and signed multiple cooperation documents after conducting on-site inspections of the investment potential of the Kagan Industrial Park, opening up local cooperation channels for Guangdong manufacturing to enter Ukraine.

Expanding production capacity and promoting localized construction of fast charging network

On July 8, 2026, Ukrainian Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade Kudlatov met with BYD Cao Shuang, and both sides confirmed the promotion of the construction of the second phase of the joint venture factory in Jizhak Oblast. The plan is to gradually increase the annual production capacity from the existing 50000 vehicles to 200000 vehicles and introduce pure electric vehicles, with a focus on increasing the proportion of local procurement of core components such as battery packs, battery casings, and wiring harnesses in Uzbekistan. The goal is to achieve an overall localization rate of over 50% by 2027. The talks will clarify the enhancement of the factory's ability to export complete vehicles to member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union such as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and explore the participation of BYD in the construction of a new energy vehicle DC fast charging network covering the entire territory of Ukraine, to match the annual compound high growth demand of the local electric vehicle market. Keywords: the Belt and Road news, new energy vehicles going to sea

The Belt and Road Capacity Cooperation Opens New Space

The Guangdong local government has taken the lead in promoting the integration of advantageous industries in Zhongshan with local parks in Ukraine, coupled with BYD's systematic layout in manufacturing, supply chain, and charging infrastructure. This marks the completion of the transformation of China Ukraine economic and trade cooperation from individual project investment to deep cooperation across the entire industry chain, including research and development collaboration, localized supply chain cultivation, regional distribution and export, and after-sales support. Uzbekistan is becoming a key manufacturing and entrepot base for China's new energy vehicles going to sea by virtue of its location advantage of being adjacent to Central Asian countries and the zero tariff channel of the Eurasian Economic Union. This practical operation mode of government enterprise linkage and central local coordination provides a new model that can be replicated for international production capacity cooperation along the the Belt and Road.Editor/Yang beihua