China to promote cooperation, boost common development with Kyrgyzstan

China is ready to work with Kyrgyzstan to faithfully implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, promote high-quality development of allround cooperation and boost the nations’ common development, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Friday. Li made the remarks when meeting with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov in Beijing. The two countries’ leaders have jointly announced the building of a China-kyrgyzstan community with a shared future of good neighborliness and shared prosperity, Li noted.

He called on the two sides to upgrade trade cooperation, promote the construction of interconnectivity such as the China-central Asia transport corridor, foster new highlights of cooperation including green energy and crossborder e-commerce, and deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges on education, culture and tourism, among other areas.

He also said that the two countries should continue enhancing security cooperation to ensure a stronger security barrier for their development and prosperity. China is willing to work with Kyrgyzstan to implement the important outcomes of the China-central Asia Summit, strengthen cooperation within the framework of the China-central Asia mechanism and promote the greater development of China-central Asia cooperation, Li added. Noting that Kyrgyzstan-china relations are at their historical best, Japarov said the country is willing to deepen cooperation with China in political, economic and trade, people-to-people and other areas, strengthen coordination on international affairs, further advance bilateral ties, and join hands in responding to new challenges facing the world. While congratulating China on successfully hosting the China-central Asia Summit, Japarov said it is believed that the mechanism is bound to become a major platform for international cooperation, contributing to regional and global peace and development.

Three takeaways from the China-central Asia Summit The China-central Asia Summit concluded in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, on Friday. During the summit, leaders of China and Central Asian countries signed and released the Xi’an Declaration of the China-central Asia Summit and adopted a list of summit outcomes. Here are three takeaways from the summit. Building a closer China-central Asia community with a shared future

According to the declaration, both sides agreed that China maintains fruitful all-round cooperation with the five Central Asian countries, which serves the fundamental interests of the six countries and their peoples. The six countries are determined to work together to rise to challenges and foster a closer China-central Asia community with a shared future.

Taking the summit as an opportunity, a mechanism for meetings among the heads of state of China and Central Asian countries has been officially established, with the two sides – China and Central Asian countries – taking turns to host the biennial summit. All parties will accelerate the building of the China-central Asia mechanism, establish a ministerial meeting mechanism as soon as possible in key and priority areas of cooperation, and give full play to the role of their foreign ministries, it said. Hailing the significance of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in leading international cooperation, the six countries agreed to coordinate their respective development strategies with the BRI.

Closer cooperation

Recognizing the huge potential in cooperation between China and Central Asia, the six countries decided to comprehensively increase the scale of trade and expand cooperation in emerging fields such as digital trade and the green economy, according to the declaration.

All parties are willing to promote the cooperation and development of infrastructure and engineering construction, accelerate the connectivity of digital and green infrastructure, and jointly advance the sustainable development of cooperation in infrastructure and engineering construction, it said. The six countries agreed to hold the forum on industrial and investment cooperation between China and the five Central Asian countries on a regular basis, upgrade the investment agreements between China.