Rows of tanks, rocket launchers and armored vehicles stretched for hundreds of metres.

The company was established with the mandate to manufacture industrial and agricultural equipment, and to supply vehicle suspension parts and gearboxes.

Not many could be happier than Tinotenda, a 10-year-old pupil at Dzvairo Primary School in Makoni, a rural district in Manicaland province.

“Military equipment has many problems and in fact is just scrap metal and garbage, which Ukrainian fighters confirm.”

Dubai is the best-known city in the United Emirates and aspires to be the centre of the modern world in culture, arts, technology and now sports.

The World Bank estimates that by 2030 the Belt and Road cooperation will have value of US$1.6 trillion or 1.3 percent of the global Gross Domestic Product.