Karlygash Minzhassarova is from Kazakhstan. She works for a Chinese company in the southern city of Shenzhen, and also serves as the general secretary of the Shenzhen Belt and Road Economic and Technological Cooperative Association. When we met her, she had just returned to the city after a 15-hour flight from Kazakhstan. Living and working in Shenzhen for four years, she hopes to make use of this dynamic base to contribute to the cooperation and friendship between China and her country.