Belt and RoadChina's Belt and Road hits a speed bump in Kazakhstan
'Dry port' pins its hopes on foreign investors to spur faster growth
A worker at Khorgos Gateway, which operates a container terminal on the border between Kazakhstan and China, directs a crane as it unloads steel coils from a container. (photo by Wataru Suzuki)
WATARU SUZUKI, Nikkei staff writer
KHORGOS, Kazakhstan -- One of the most ambitious projects in China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to transform a vast plot of open land along China's border with Kazakhstan into the launch point for a river of Chinese goods flowing to Europe by rail.