The long-standing Silk Road culture has been immersed in Xinjiang for thousands of years, and is destined to leave a strong mark in the construction of the "Belt and Road".

In 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other three ministries jointly issued the "Vision and Action to Promote the Joint Construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road", clarifying that Xinjiang is the core area of ​​the Silk Road Economic Belt. Xinjiang borders many countries and is the center of the Eurasian plate.

As of now, Xinjiang has spawned 50 A-share listed companies. These 50 companies live up to expectations, based in Xinjiang, looking at the world, frequently entering countries and regions along the "Belt and Road", and composing a beautiful music of "Zheng He's voyage to the West" in the new era.

Emerging service industry takes the lead in global layout

Once upon a time, Xinjiang's economy was just "heavy industry nailed horseshoes and light industry made naan", but now, Xinjiang's economy has diversified its industrial structure, emerging service industries have emerged, and are at the forefront in the process of promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road".

As one of the "pride" of HNA Group, Xinjiang company Bohai Financial Holdings mainly engages in the strategic emerging service industry of financial leasing. According to Ma Weihua, president of Bohai Financial Holdings Investment, who graduated from Xinjiang University, the company has taken the leasing industry as the core and has launched a coordinated development strategy for diversified financial formats. At present, Bohai Financial Holdings has been involved in many financial industries such as leasing, securities, insurance, Internet finance and banking. With the successful implementation of the company's multi-subscription international merger and acquisition, Bohai Financial Holdings has gradually gained popularity in the global financial market. In the future, the company will implement the policy spirit of state support and encourage Chinese companies to "go global", respond to the call for the construction of the "Belt and Road", and continue to "expand territory" in overseas markets.

In 2012, it acquired Hong Kong Air Leasing (HKAC), officially entering the world aircraft leasing market; in 2013, it acquired 100% of the equity of Seaco SRL and entered the container leasing field; in 2015, it acquired 80% of the equity of Crono, becoming the world's second largest container leasing company; in 2016, it completed the 100% equity delivery; in 2017, it established the position of the world's third largest aircraft leasing company by completing the acquisition of CIT commercial aircraft leasing business... It was precisely after nearly 7 years of industry benchmark mergers and acquisitions, Bohai Financial Holdings became a world-class leasing leading enterprise with an asset scale of more than 300 billion yuan and an annual revenue of 24.3 billion yuan. At present, Bohai Financial Holdings has 30 operation centers around the world, providing diversified rental services and supporting financial services such as aircraft, containers, infrastructure, high-end equipment and new energy to more than 1,000 customers around the world.

In the view of Weng Liang, president of the Tianjin Leasing Industry Association, Bohai Financial Holdings has carried out foreign investment around its main businesses such as aircraft leasing and container leasing, effectively integrating high-quality assets around the world, enhancing the market share and core competitiveness of Chinese leasing companies around the world, driving the transformation and upgrading of China's leasing industry, and enhancing the voice of Chinese companies in the global aviation and shipping markets. At the same time, it also sets a benchmark and demonstration for Chinese enterprises to "go global".

With the advancement of the construction of the "Belt and Road", the Xinjiang logistics industry has also ushered in major development opportunities. Xinjiang is an important hub for "connecting eastwards to go westwards" and "going westwards to eastwards". Xinjiang's third-party logistics company Tianshun Co., Ltd. takes the initiative to do a good job in two-way mutual communication and expansion to the east and west directions, and gradually builds the logistics and supply chain service capabilities and pattern of "one main and two wings". In the future, Tianshun Co., Ltd. will continue to increase its efforts to expand the international logistics market, seize the opportunities of the "Belt and Road", actively strive to participate in the construction of the China-Europe Express Assemblies Center project, and achieve rapid growth in international logistics business.

Traditional industries appear along the Belt and Road

Compared with emerging industries, Xinjiang's traditional industrial listed companies have achieved rapid business development in countries and regions along the "Belt and Road".

"World water conservation is China, China's water conservation is Xinjiang, Xinjiang's water conservation is Corps, and Corps' water conservation is Tianye." Since taking over the promotion project of cotton drip irrigation and water conservation in Tajikistan in 2001, Tianye's water conservation has fully utilized Xinjiang's location advantages and relied on Xinjiang's modern water-saving agriculture integrated innovation system, it has achieved water conservation technology promotion demonstration in 15 countries in Central Asia and Africa, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, etc. Up to now, Tianye Water Saving has accumulated more than 100,000 mu of promotion in the above countries and regions.

"It's better to see it at first sight than to hear it. Your drip irrigation technology and products are really good. I hope you can carry out extensive and in-depth cooperation with you in many fields including water-saving agriculture to modernize Kazakhstan's agriculture." said Molda Shaf Adenbek, an academician of the Kazakh Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Looking forward to the future, under the guidance of the "Belt and Road" initiative, Tianye Water Saving Plan relies on its accumulated advantages in international scientific and technological cooperation for many years, actively explores foreign cooperation channels and innovates cooperation methods, focusing on international scientific and technological cooperation in Central Asian countries and the introduction of talent and intelligence, the construction of water-saving industrialization demonstration parks in Central Asian and ASEAN countries, and the construction of international water-saving agricultural technology training centers.

COFCO Sugar Industry, which started with tomatoes, is planning to plant tomatoes in countries and regions along the "Belt and Road". Kazakhstan is adjacent to Xinjiang, one of the three largest tomato producing areas in the world, and has a good planting environment. Kazakhstan Eurasia Group has negotiated cooperation with COFCO Group and COFCO Sugar Industry on many occasions, and has formed a preliminary cooperation plan and is carrying out preliminary preparations. The project is expected to receive support from Kazakhstan, the World Bank, etc. in terms of land allocation and financial institutions.

At present, COFCO Sugar’s tomato products are exported to the west, 90% of the trade method is delivery by Alashankou/Dostek, and 10% are transported to designated railway stations for customers in Kazakhstan. Through the "Belt and Road", COFCO Sugar's sales of tomato products to Russia and other countries increased from 18,000 tons in 2015 to 26,000 tons in 2016. While improving the timeliness of goods supply, this also reduces the transportation cost of about 30 yuan per ton, thus leading the transformation and development of Xinjiang's export product logistics model.

COFCO Sugar Industry will take full advantage of the opportunity of the construction of the "Belt and Road" and the location advantages of Xinjiang, and give full play to the leading role of central enterprises in agriculture "going out". The company stated that it will strive to develop into an important participant in the agricultural trade of the "Belt and Road" initiative, further improve the supply chain asset layout of sugar and tomatoes globally and improve operating efficiency, and explore and promote the transfer of domestic tomato and beet sugar processing capacity.