China will build a conference hall for the government of Tajikistan

According to official data, on August 21, 2023, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan and the Agency for International Development Cooperation of China signed a new agreement.

As reports the press service of the Parliament of Tajikistan, the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan, Zavki Zavkizoda, and the Deputy Chairman of the Agency for International Development Cooperation of China, Deng Boqing, signed an exchange letter for the allocation of financial assistance from China amounting to 2 million dollars for the construction of a conference hall in the complex of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.

For the construction of the parliament and government complex in Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, China has allocated 1.5 billion Chinese yuan (220 million dollars) as “grant financial assistance from a friendly neighboring country.”

The total area of the parliament building will exceed 42,000 square meters. The government building will be constructed on an area of 10.27 hectares, which will include a 15-story government building, two 13-story departmental buildings, a park with pathways and sidewalks. The height of the central building will be 91.5 meters.

The agreement for the construction of these large government facilities was signed on June 15, 2019, with the participation of Emomali Rahmon and Xi Jinping in Dushanbe.

According to experts, in exchange for financing the construction of these government facilities, Beijing requires Dushanbe to facilitate investments by Chinese companies in the mining industry or, more specifically, in the development of mineral deposits in Tajikistan, as well as to increase the volume of agricultural exports to China.