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The improvement of regional connectivity via the formation and construction of international transport corridors was a central feature of these programmes, aside from trade and investment promotion. CAREC projects are functionalist: although not expressly promoting regional integration or trade with the projects\u2019 sponsor (unlike the Belt and Road Initiative, BRI), they seek to remove existing bottlenecks by focusing on field specific (customs, transport, trade etc.) technical regional cooperation among landlocked developing states with poor interconnectedness, facilitating its access to seas and international trade routes.<\/p>\n<p>CAREC demonstrated impressive progress between 1997 and mid-2010s, evolving from the initial idea of improving regional cooperation between China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (ADB 1998) to six fully-fledged connectivity corridors among ten countries. 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