When Najib Razak visited Qinzhou in south-western China, the Malaysian prime minister crowed about the rapid pace of development at the south-east Asia-focused port.
“In the future, if I want a project to be finished as fast as possible, I would say, ‘Finish it with Qinzhou speed’,” he said after his 2012 visit.
Five years later, the project is making slow progress, with no big vessels calling at the port, investors complaining about an insufficient workforce and grand plans to turn Qinzhou — located in the Beibu Gulf near the border with Vietnam — into China’s latest factory hub yet to be realised.
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