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‘They keep moving forward’: Kazakhs nuanced in their view of China’s growing influence
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The Khorgos free trade zone, set up in 2005 and now part of the special economic zone, has struggled with an imbalance between the Chinese and Kazakh sides.
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ALMATY (Kazakhstan) – For Ms Saltanat Maden, Khorgos – the world’s largest dry port and a special economic zone that straddles Kazakhstan and China in the two neighbours’ remote borderlands – is a land of opportunity.
The 28-year-old, who hails from the region around Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty in the country’s south-east, works on the Chinese side of the port in the free trade zone that is part of the special economic zone, 300km away from home.
