In 2014, under the promotion of the "the Belt and Road" initiative,

The Dangala Agricultural and Textile Industrial Park, a cooperation project between China and Tajikistan, has emerged.

With the desire to use Chinese technology to help the local area produce more and better cotton,

Textile workers from China are on this foreign land,

Over the past decade, we have written a unique chapter of struggle.

This is a drone photo of the Dangala Agricultural and Textile Industrial Park, a Sino Tajikistan cooperation project, taken in the Dangala District of Khatlon Oblast, Tajikistan.

A Chinese employee works in the spinning workshop of the Dangala Agricultural Textile Industrial Park, a Sino Tajikistan cooperation project.

A Tafang employee works in the spinning workshop of the Dangala Agricultural Textile Industrial Park, a Sino Tafang cooperation project.

The industrial park relies on China's mature cotton planting and management technology, leverages the complementary advantages of production capacity between China and Tajikistan, and establishes a demonstration park covering the entire industry chain of cotton planting, cotton processing, spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, and finished clothing. It improves the entire industry chain model from cotton planting to textile deep processing, and enables local cotton to embark on the path of industrial transformation from exporting a single raw material to exporting high value-added products.

Sun Yuehui (left), the director of the spinning workshop, guides the Tajik employee Yidi Gu in the Dangala Agricultural Textile Industrial Park of the China Tajikistan Cooperation Project in the Dangala District of Khatlon Oblast, Tajikistan.

Tafang employees work in the spinning workshop 2 of the Dangala Agricultural Textile Industrial Park, a Sino Tajik cooperation project.

In the knitting workshop of the Dangala Agricultural Textile Industry Park in the China Tajikistan cooperation project, Chinese employees guide Tafang employee Gufulong (right) in his work.

Tafang employees work in the garment workshop of the Dangala Agricultural and Textile Industrial Park, a Sino Tajikistan cooperation project.

Kayumov, a post-2000s generation, came here to work as a translator in June this year. For him, translation is not only a job, but also a sense of value. I am proud that my hometown town can welcome a big industry and find the path to happiness in the small cotton

At the Dangala Agricultural and Textile Industrial Park of the China Tajikistan Cooperation Project in Dangala District, Khatlon Oblast, Tajikistan, Tajik employee Kayumov showcased ready to wear clothing samples.

This is a cotton field photo taken in Dangala District, Khatlon Oblast, Tajikistan.

Photography by Li Renzi

Poster: Zhang Ziyu

Editor: Zhang Jiayang and Rong Hao

Xinhua News Agency Photography Department Asia Europe Branch

Jointly produced by Almaty branch

Editor: Wang Siyang