Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who will attend the China-Central Asia Summit and pay a state visit to China, in Xi’an, capital of northwestern China’s Shaanxi province, on May 17. Xi Jinping pointed out that China and Kazakhstan are reliable good friends, good brothers and good partners. The two countries are currently in an important stage of development and revival. China-Kazakhstan relations ushered in a new “Golden 30 Years”. The two countries should promote traditional friendship and support each other, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, pursue development and revival together, build friendship from generation to generation, high degree of mutual trust and a community with a shared destiny establishment should be encouraged.
He stressed that an independent, secure, stable and prosperous Kazakhstan coincides with the common interests of the people of China and Kazakhstan. China firmly supports Kazakhstan in safeguarding national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and supports Kazakhstan in pursuing a development path suited to its national conditions.
Xi also pointed out that in the past 10 years, since the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative proposed by him, China and Kazakhstan have successfully implemented dozens of important cooperation projects, which have benefited the peoples of the two countries and promoted common interests. development has been encouraged. The two sides should expand cooperation in areas such as economy and trade, investment, agriculture, vehicle manufacturing, energy, e-commerce, innovation and big data, and strengthen people-to-people exchanges and cooperation.
According to the Chinese President, China is willing to work together with Central Asian countries, including Kazakhstan, to make the China-Central Asia Mechanism an important platform for in-depth cooperation among the six countries.
In the talks, Tokayev said that China has a special and important place in Kazakhstan’s foreign policy. Kazakhstan-China relations are based on deep friendship and solid mutual trust, with both sides having common goals and missions. Kazakhstan is willing to work with China to strengthen the Kazakhstan-China sustainable comprehensive strategic partnership, and is willing to expand bilateral cooperation in various fields such as trade, tourism, humanities and local cooperation, so that the two countries can achieve the new “Golden 30 Years”. To begin with a more solid foundation can be laid.
Tokayev also said that the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” is a great initiative, in which Kazakhstan will continue to actively participate. Under the current complex international situation, the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping are very meaningful. Kazakhstan actively supports them and is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with China in this regard. At the same time, Kazakhstan is willing to work with China to jointly enhance regional security, stability and development, making full use of the China-Central Asia mechanism.
After the talks, the presidents of the two countries signed the “China-Kazakhstan Joint Statement”, and jointly signed a number of bilateral cooperation documents on economy and trade, energy, transportation, agriculture, connectivity, humanitarian cooperation, local cooperation, etc. Be a witness to
(Credits- China Media Group, Beijing)
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