Bayan Konirbayev, a sales project manager, comes from Almaty, the heart of Kazakhstan, the ninth biggest country in the world and the first step of the northern part of the Belt and Road Initiative. With an excellent academic background after graduating from college in Kazakhstan, he got an offer from General Electric, one of the biggest companies in the US. But instead, seeing the huge potential of China’s market, he chose to come to China.

He has been in the healthcare industry for nine years, and has been on business trips all around the world. Noticing the changes in the healthcare industry, he witnesses the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia, in Eurasia and even all over the world. Nowadays China is sparing no efforts to promote the initiative and everyone has seen the difference.

During an interview with CGTN's Liu Xin, Bayan said that mostly when people are talking about the Belt and Road Initiative, they talk about building roads, highways and doing trade, but the Belt and Road is not just about roads or railways. It's not even just total communication; it is something that will be able to change everything. It is a platform for people to communicate everything. 

Bayan also points out that today, a lot of people have already known what kind of project the Belt and Road Initiative is, and a lot of people can feel the difference: How it was, how it came about and what it will be in the future. All the countries in Central Asia can see the difference. A lot of people are realizing that the Belt and Road Initiative is more of a global platform than just highways. With that platform, a lot of businesses, opportunities and developments are coming.