Over the past decade, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has significantly contributed to the global economy while enhancing industrial capacity, inter-provincial connectivity and infrastructure development.

In China’s Henan province, these impacts are particularly visible, fueling socio-economic prosperity and a qualitative opening-up that is reshaping the region. Henan province and the BRI are complementary and form an ideal combination due to Henan’s strategic location, strong industrial base and the BRI’s emphasis on infrastructure development and connectivity. As a transportation hub—particularly through Zhengzhou Airport—Henan aligns well with the BRI’s goals of facilitating trade and economic integration. Its robust industrial base, encompassing both manufacturing and agriculture, further supports the BRI’s objective of promoting trade and economic cooperation, enabling Henan to supply goods and services to other participating countries.

Henan’s provincial economy stands for innovation, digitalization, modernization, AI and qualitative industrialization achieving new heights of economic stability and sustainability further strengthening strategic networking of the BRI. Its Xinzheng International Airport in Zhengzhou bustles with activity and its Zhengzhou-Luxembourg “Air Silk Road” air freight service offers more than 50-round trips each week. The increasing cargo capacity of Zhengzhou Airport (250-thousand tons in 2013 to 705-thousand tons in 2021), placing it sixth in China and among the top 40 global cargo airports showing its economic diversity and dynamic. Obviously, the expansion and connectivity of the Air Silk Road (ASR) spanning over 2-hundred cities in more than twenty European countries and some ninety cities across China vividly reflects its trans-regional connectivity, scope, utility and importance connecting people, minds, businessmen and investors. It is a good omen that through an efficient and convenient network Chinese consumer can purchase and receive goods from around the world, while Chinese products can enter local European markets at competitive prices. Thus the ASR is determined to build a logistics hub that connects domestic and international markets.

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