Energy cooperation between China, belt and road countries fruitful

Powerful ties: Tourists at the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing. China has enlarged its circle of friends among Belt and Road countries. It has established the Belt and Road energy partnership with 32 countries. — AFP

BEIJING: After dehydration, desulfurisation and decarbonisation, freshly extracted gas from Central Asian countries merges into the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline, jointly operated by the China National Petroleum Corp and local partners.

Traversing wild deserts and grasslands, the natural gas in the pipeline will travel nearly 2,000km eastward over the next 84 hours to the Chinese border city of Horgos in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, from where it is distributed further to various Chinese regions including Shanghai, Fuzhou and Hong Kong.