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Serbia, a strategic stage for the Silk Roads in Europe

2020-08-16T17:31:23.841Z


Belgrade celebrates its "iron friendship" with Beijing. Serbia welcomes Chinese investment. But protests are mounting over the ecological impact of a mine and power plants.


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While several Silk Roads projects are frozen in Asia and Africa, " between China and Serbia, it is an iron friendship" , likes to assure with emotion the Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic. Indeed, Serbia has become a key anchor point for the Middle Kingdom in Europe. Officially, Chinese investments reach 10 billion euros. It was with the construction of the Pupine Bridge in Belgrade that Beijing began to mark its presence, followed by the purchase of the steelworks of Smederevo by Hesteel and the copper mines of Bor by Zidjin. For the past year, high gates have protected the 100 hectares offered by the city of Zrenjanin to Linglong Tire, which has to build 13 million tires there per year.

The signed agreements provide for the opening of an industrial park, the acquisition by Yinlong of the Ikarbus bus construction plant, and the upcoming start of automotive lighting manufacturing by Xingyu Automotive Lighting Systems. Serbia is an integral part

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Source: lefigaro

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