BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, May 4. The construction cost of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway amounts to approximately $5.1 billion, Trend reports.
This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Transport of Tajikistan, Jasurbek Choriev, at the III Tashkent Investment Forum.
"This will be a railway that will play a significant role in the development not only of Uzbekistan but also of the entire Central Asia. The main agreements on the project have already been reached," he said.
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, a planned 454-kilometer rail line, is intended to connect China's and Uzbekistan's railways through Kyrgyzstan's territory and further link up with the European railway network through Turkmenistan, Iran, and Türkiye.
Earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan reported that the construction project of the railway is estimated at $8 billion.
A sum of 52.7 million soms ($593,421) was allocated from Kyrgyzstan's republican budget in 2023 for the development of the feasibility study for the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway.