East China’s Jiangsu province has made remarkable progress in its overseas development by tapping into the country’s Belt and Road initiative, as is evidenced by the achievements made by Jiangsu’s investment in the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE is one of the Middle Eastern countries that has actively responded and participated in the Belt and Road Initiative. In the past six years, the cooperation between the UAE and China has expanded to include energy, logistics, technology, finance, education, culture and other fields. The two sides have become partners in building the Belt and Road for mutual benefit.
The UAE, located in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, is a desert country known for its rich oil reserve, and is known as the "flowers in the desert." Here is the fertile land of fashion and the center of world energy supply.
A resident of Dubai
These solar panels are both beautiful and practical. We now have less and less oil resources and need clean energy like solar energy.
A solar panel in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province provides these solar panels. The company takes advantage of the long duration of the UAE's sunshine to bring the world's most advanced photovoltaic production technology to bring green and clean energy to the Middle East.
Zeng Xinzhan, Chief Operating Officer of Amarton (Central-African Northeast) Co., Ltd
At the beginning, our business is mainly in Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. We have made a big breakthrough in the UAE.
At present, the company has a market share of more than 30% in the UAE and cooperates with more than 20 countries and regions such as Sudan.
The green construction concept of the Belt and Road is also rooted in the construction of the China-Africa Capacity Cooperation Demonstration Zone. The zone, which is built and operated by Jiangsu enterprises, carries out green management of the whole life cycle from planning and design to construction and acceptance. In the field of international capacity cooperation, capacity cooperation projects have been carried out with the projects demonstrations with high technology content, low resource consumption and less environmental pollution. The zone has also cultivated a number of high-quality green brands in key areas such as steel, energy, building materials and light industry. Today, four companies have landed in the park.
The UAE is the 11th country to exempt ordinary visa for Chinese nationals. In 2018, 1.1 million Chinese nationals traveled to the UAE. The "Chinese language fever" continues to heat up in the UAE, and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Muhammad has proposed to offer Chinese courses in 200 schools in the UAE. Friendly exchanges and mutual cultural understanding have brought a sense of happiness to both peoples.
