China and Tajikistan join hands to build a world-class textile park
In the China-Thailand Tajikistan Agricultural and Textile Industrial Park, local female workers work in a clean and tidy workshop.
After crossing the mountains and ridges from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, and heading south, the reporter came to Dangara City, Khatlon Prefecture, the hometown of President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan. Among the green farmland and acres of farmhouses on the outskirts of the city, rows of brand-new factory buildings, slogans “Long Live China-Tajikistan Friendship” written in both Chinese and Tajikistan, and fluttering national flags of China and Tajikistan are particularly eye-catching. This is the largest textile enterprise in Central Asia and an early harvest project of the “Belt and Road” construction between China and Tajikistan – the China-Thailand Tajikistan Agricultural Textile Industrial Park.
“Agricultural Textile Industrial Park has become Tajikistan’s largest exporter of foreign exchange earnings”
The Danggala area has good natural conditions and is a producer of high-quality long-staple cotton. The main income of local farmers also comes from cotton cultivation. However, due to poor infrastructure, cotton varieties cannot be improved, resulting in an increase in yields. In addition, the weak development of downstream industries such as textiles also prevents a large amount of cotton from being further processed. The situation of living a hard life holding on to the golden mountain makes revitalizing the textile industry a top priority for Tajikistan.
In July 2014, the China-Thailand Tajikistan Agricultural and Textile Industrial Park was officially launched. The industrial park has a total investment of 2 billion yuan and is jointly constructed by China Zhongtai Group, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and Tajik enterprises. The third phase of the project is equipped with a total of 200,000 acres of cotton fields and three ginning plants. The first phase of the 60,000 spindle project was put into operation in 2016, and the second phase of the 86,000 spindle project will be completed in the middle of this year. When introducing the situation to reporters and his delegation, Yue Bin, Chinese Ambassador to Tajikistan, emphasized that with the updating of equipment and the continuous improvement of production capacity, the Agricultural Textile Industrial Park has become Tajikistan’s largest export earner.
Up to now, the industrial park has processed nearly 37,000 tons of seed cotton, produced more than 12,000 tons of lint cotton, and more than 9,800 tons of pure cotton yarn. Talking about the economic benefits of the company, Wang Linshan, general manager of the industrial park, was very familiar with it: in 2017, the company sold a total of 7186.6 tons of yarn and completed sales of US$21.443 million. After the project is fully completed, annual sales are expected to reach 1 billion yuan. “All our yarns are sold overseas, which is a real foreign exchange income.”
The thin cotton thread brings real money to Tajikistan! Safarov, the first deputy director of the Presidential Strategic Research Center of Tajikistan, is very concerned about this project. He told reporters that in recent years, Tajikistan’s economy has been affected by factors such as the decline of the Russian economy, weak international market prices of export commodities, and reduced remittance income. The downward trend is obvious, and foreign exchange reserves continue to decrease. “The foreign exchange earnings generated by the industrial park are so important to our country!”
Mlaudali Alimalton, former deputy prime minister of Tajikistan and president of the National Agricultural Investment Bank, said that the yarn output of the industrial park is second to none in Tajikistan and even the entire Central Asia region. “If we want to give an evaluation of the achievements of Zhongtai Group in Tajikistan, I think it must be higher than 100 points.”
“I feel very proud to learn and operate the world’s most advanced textile machines at home”
In the first phase of the textile workshop, Tajik workers were operating in front of the machines. Since it is a fully automatic production line, there are not many workers in front of each machine. Unlike old-fashioned textile factories, the factory buildings in the industrial park are not noisy, and there are no cotton threads flying everywhere in the air. In the adjacent second-phase workshop, some of the brand-new machines have been put in place, and some have not yet been unpacked. But in a few months, they will all be put into the “battlefield” as “new recruits” of the industrial park. “.
“The project put into production has brought Tajikistan’s textile industry forward for 20 years,” Yue Bin said when talking about this largest textile industrial park in Central Asia, all the most advanced production equipment in the world is used here.
“We are going to integrate the world’s most advantageous technical equipment and build a world-class textile park,” Wang Linshan said. The project uses digital and intelligent agricultural machinery from John Deere of the United States, and introduces a complete set of the world’s top Swiss Textile equipment, its ultra-high degree of automation and stable product quality are the guarantee for the production of high-end yarn products.
“Chinese companies have brought advanced production equipment, which has greatly improved our cotton processing capabilities.” Hajdal, the First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan, was full of praise for the achievements of the industrial park: ” In the past, our cotton processing volume only accounted for 10% of the national cotton production, but now this number has increased to 40%. In the future, as the second and third phases of the industrial park project are fully completed and put into operation, our cotton processing capabilities will make a qualitative leap. ”
Schiff, a trainer in the first textile workshop, was sent to China to study as a technical backbone. She said, “I feel very proud to be able to learn and operate the world’s most advanced textile machines right at home.”
After driving 10 kilometers, the reporter came to the cotton planting base of the industrial park. This is the season for cotton sowing, and tractors areI’m digging the ground. Last year, this 100,000-acre land produced 30,000 tons of high-quality cotton. According to the overall plan, the future industrial park will use world-leading environmentally friendly processes for weaving, printing and dyeing, and producing garments to form a full industrial chain. Alimalton said that this industrial chain will play a very important role in increasing employment, innovating technology, and increasing tax revenue in Tajikistan.
“Chinese companies have taught me technology and allowed our family to live a good life”
When I walked out of the factory, it was already the lunch break in the park. The workers who walked out of the factory one after another smiled and said hello to the reporter in Chinese. Zhao Jianlong, director of the comprehensive management department of the industrial park, told reporters that the industrial park currently employs about 400 Tajik workers and managers. “The salary of skilled workers can exceed 2,000 somoni (1 US dollar is equivalent to 8.9 somoni), which is higher than that of local bank employees, etc.” White-collar incomes are even higher.” In addition, the park will also send outstanding employees to China for further training, laying a solid foundation for training a new generation of textile industry workers in Tajikistan.
The eight members of the female worker Ahila’s family originally lived in an adobe house of only 15 square meters that was ventilated and leaky. Whenever the rainy season came, the family was always worried that the flood from the mountains would destroy the house. After Ahila applied to work in the industrial park in 2015, the family’s life changed dramatically: through hard study and hard work, Ahila has become an excellent textile operator and used the wages she earned to build a house for her family. New house. She told reporters emotionally: “Chinese companies have taught me technology, and it has also allowed our family to live a good life.”
Among the Tajik employees in the industrial park, the proportion of female workers is over 60%. Since most workers are recruited directly from nearby rural areas, this means that hundreds of Tajik women who could only do farm work at home have the opportunity to go out of their homes. , bringing considerable income to the family through their own labor.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, cotton was first introduced from the Western Regions to Xinjiang, China via the Silk Road; more than 1,500 years later, through the Silk Road Economic Belt, China exported advanced cotton planting technology and textile technology to Central Asian countries. At the end of the interview, the reporter met a group of newly arrived Tajikistan textile workers who were receiving technical training. From their eyes, the reporter saw expectations for the future. They will work with their Chinese colleagues to create a better tomorrow. (Title: China and Tajikistan join hands to build a world-class textile park)
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