Shuttered at home, cement plants bloom along China's new Silk Road

By Brenda Goh and Mariya Gordeyeva HANGZHOU, China/SHIELI, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - On a windswept steppe in southwestern Kazakhstan, the new Chinese-backed cement plant on the outskirts of the village of Shieli stands as a gleaming symbol to some of the Central Asian country's industrialisation.

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