SINGAPORE (Sept 28): While China is expanding its influence across the region with the Belt and Road Initiative, companies in Singapore are beating a path to Chongqing, where the Belt meets the Road.

The latest link to the city is the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative (CCI) established three years ago which encourages Singapore businesses to set up in the western reaches of China.

It is the third government-to-government (G2G) project and is aimed at driving growth in the less-developed western region of China, home to one-third of the country’s population.

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