Recently, Atamkulov, Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan, attended a government meeting and introduced the implementation plan for the new phase of Kazakhstan's 2025 "Bright Road" national plan. By 2025, Kazakhstan will invest 6.598 trillion tenge (approximately US$17 billion) to implement the "Bright Road" national plan. Since Kazakhstan entered the 21st century, its economic development achievements are obvious to all, and it can be called a model for the development of the five Central Asian countries. Especially in 2014, Kazakhstan formulated the "Bright Road" plan, which is committed to promoting the construction of infrastructure in Kazakhstan to ensure sustained economic development and social stability. In fact, at the beginning of this year, the "Kazakhstan Pravda" has already counted the achievements made since the implementation of the "Bright Road" plan. Let's review it.

Article source: Economic and Commercial Counselor Office in Kazakhstan On January 16, 2019, the "Kazakhstan Pravda" published an article entitled "Infrastructure Construction and Development Build a Bright Road", systematically expounding Kazakhstan's implementation of the "Bright Road" new economic policy Achievements achieved. 1. Within the framework of the "Bright Road" plan for highway construction and renovation, Kazakhstan will construct and renovate more than 7,000 kilometers of national highways and maintain 10,000 kilometers of state highways. It is planned that by 2020, primary and secondary roads will account for 50% of the country’s total highway mileage. In 2018, under the framework of 24 national highway construction and renovation projects, 592 kilometers of new highways were built. In 2016-2017, 1,700 kilometers of highways in 13 states across the country were overhauled. Highway projects under construction include Western Europe-West China Highway, Central-South Highway, Central-Eastern Highway, Beineu-Aktau Highway, Almaty-Ust-Kamengorsk Highway, Asta The Na-Petropavlovsk highway, Aktobe-Akerau highway, Uralsk-Kamenka highway, and the Tobol River Bridge project. From 2016 to 2018, new roads were actually opened each year to 767 kilometers, 600 kilometers and 528 kilometers. In addition, the construction of the 12-kilometer Irtysh River Bridge, the largest road bridge in Central Asia, was completed, and the Tobol River Bridge was reconstructed.

▲Kazakhstan highway renovation project undertaken by Shougang Construction II. Housing construction modernization At present, most of the newly-built residential communities in Kazakhstan have an extremely long service life. In order to accelerate the modernization of housing construction, the state provides financial loans and subsidies under the framework of the "Bright Road" plan to reduce the aging rate of heating, water supply and water treatment facilities in residential quarters from 65% in 2015 to 57% in 2020. The quality of community property services. Under the framework of the "Bright Road" plan, 34,786 kilometers of heating, water supply and water treatment pipelines, 29 boilers and 95 community facilities will be constructed and transformed. From 2015 to 2018, a total of 2,982 kilometers of heating, water supply and water treatment pipelines, 24 boilers and 71 community facilities have been constructed and transformed, and the aging rate of community facilities has dropped from 65% to 57%.

▲Street view of Kazakhstan III. Construction of the Caspian Ferry Terminal In August 2018, the car ferry terminal was put into operation at the Caspian Kurek Port, with an annual cargo volume of 2 million tons. At present, the main road linking the Port of Kurek with the national road network has been built. By the end of 2019, the construction of an integrated production and information system for "nomads" will be completed. In the first 11 months of 2018, 4.5 million tons of cargo was handled through Aktau Port, an increase of 25% over the same period in 2017. The cargo handling capacity of 2.7 million tons was completed through 3 dry bulk terminals in Aktau Port. The implementation of the "Bright Road" plan will increase the total handling capacity of Aktau Port and Kurek Port to 26 million tons. With the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kalas railway line, the first phase of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor project can achieve a freight volume of 5 million tons per year, and 17 million tons in the future.

▲Kazakhstan Caspian Oilfield 4. Employment guarantee The implementation of the "Bright Road" plan not only effectively stimulates economic growth, but also creates a large number of jobs. Since the implementation of the plan, the road construction and renovation project alone has created more than 100,000 jobs. From 2015 to 2018, the implementation of the modernization project of community facilities created 7,640 temporary jobs and 472 fixed jobs. Road services are an important part of transportation infrastructure construction. At present, 1,859 corresponding service facilities have been built along the national highway, of which 260 are located along the "Western Europe-Western China" highway. These gas stations and service area facilities have solved the employment problem of more than 25,000 people. This number will continue to grow with the improvement of infrastructure and the increase in freight volume. ▲A train from Kazakhstan enters the China-Kazakhstan Lianyungang logistics transfer base 5. The engine of economic growth The implementation of the "Bright Road" plan has a positive effect on the country's economic growth, which is not only reflected in the source of tax revenue that ensures the country’s financial stability At the same time, it promoted the development of construction, service, commerce, communication and other industries. This is particularly evident in the context of the global economic downturn in 2015-2016, when Kazakhstan’s economic growth rate reached 1.3% and 2% respectively. In 2017, with the recovery of basic economic sectors, the contribution rate of the "Bright Road" program to economic growth fell to 0.75%. The "Bright Road" plan has greatly promoted the development of the service industry. From 2015 to 2018, the output value of the service industry increased by 1.9%, of which the service sectors such as trade (+2.4%), information (+2%) and communications (+2%) developed the fastest. The new road network has promoted the growth of passenger and freight traffic, with a growth rate of 4.6% in 2018. The rapid development of container transportation in transit through Kazakhstan, with 212,000 TEUs in 2015, 245,000 TEUs in 2016, 347,500 TEUs in 2017, and 411,500 TEUs in the first 10 months of 2018, compared with the same period last year. An increase of 49%.

▲Bulky cargo transportation by Kazakhstan international highway

The above is the achievements of Kazakhstan through the "Bright Road" plan in the past five years, and it has made remarkable achievements among the five Central Asian countries. Now that the goals of the implementation plan for the new phase of the "Bright Road" have been announced, let us wait and see:

According to the plan, Kazakhstan plans to upgrade 10,000 kilometers of national highways and maintain 11,000 kilometers of national highways and 27,000 kilometers of local highways by 2025. In order to upgrade part of the road sections to national standards, it is planned to construct and renovate 133 bus stations and service areas. In the railway sector, modernization of the Dostyk-Moyent railway and the Moyent-Aktogai electrified railway is planned. In the aviation field, we will vigorously develop regional aviation and plan to build 16 airports. In the field of water transportation, it plans to purchase 48 ships, including 6 merchant ships, and carry out major repairs to several ship locks.