Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 1 / Trend /
Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov will pay an official visit to China on September 7-9 at the invitation of the Chinese side, Xinhua agency reported with reference to a representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Ma Zhaohu.
Kazykhanov will discuss the issues of bilateral cooperation with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Beijing.
There is a positive trend of stable development of Chinese-Kazakh relations over the last 20 years.
According to the experts, the basis of Chinese-Kazakh cooperation is power engineering.
The second line of the Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline and the Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline is under construction. The latter is a part of the Central Asia gas pipeline construction project. It is a specialized system for transporting natural gas from Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China.
The spectrum of bilateral relations includes transportation projects - the reconstruction of roads on the route Western Europe - Western China; humanitarian projects - training of Kazakh students in China and trade.
The mutual trade turnover between Kazakhstan and China amounted to $20 billion 400 million in 2010. It increased by more than 50 times compared to the initial period after the diplomatic relations were established.
China and Kazakhstan cooperate in such international organizations as UN, SCO and other organizations.