Construction of a cement plant starts in the Bulakbashi district of the Andijan region of Uzbekistan.
The cost of the first phase of the project (2018-2020) is $ 418.9 million. In the first stage, the capacity of the plant will be 1.2 million tons of cement per year. In 2020–2023, the second stage of the project, worth $ 215 million, will be implemented and the capacity will be increased to 3 million tons of cement per year.
Jo‘ydam Tamir Qurilish JSC and Chinese companies SHANGFENG, TUNLI and Beijing Triumph participate in the project. The parties created a joint venture SHANGFENG-BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP.