Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, May 19 /Trend H.Hasanov/
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov received a member of the National Committee of People's Political Consultative Conference Yu Nina, Turkmen Dovlet khabarlary reported.
At the meeting, Berdymuhamedov said "Turkmenistan considers the People's Republic of China as an important strategic partner and historical ties of old friendship, rooted in the days of the Silk Road, and, of course, fruitful mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields unite the two states."
"Ambitious jointly implemented project on the construction of a transnational pipeline through which Turkmen "blue fuel" supplied to China can be a good example of it," the statement said.
In turn, the representative of Beijing stressed the importance that "China attaches to the development of traditionally friendly relations with Turkmenistan"
"The existence of huge prospects for the deepening and expansion of a multi-faceted Turkmen-Chinese partnership taking into account the existing profound potential of cooperation, which contribute to the effective implementation of a high level of political trust between the two countries, mutual goodwill, as well as regular contacts at the level of Heads of State," was noted during the meeting, Neutral Turkmenistan writes.
China has now become the largest economic partner of Turkmenistan by the volume of mutual trade and economic cooperation scale. One of the world's largest projects in the transportation of energy - the construction of the Turkmenistan - China pipeline with a length of about eight thousand kilometers was implemented with the participation of the two countries. It was commissioned in 2009.
An agreement on additional supplies of Turkmen gas to China in the amount of 25 billion cubic meters was signed during the government visit of Berdymukhamedov to China in November 2011. In the result of the agreement the total annual export of Turkmen gas to China will amount to 65 billion cubic meters.
China National Petroleum Corporation has deployed active work on exploration of contract area on the right bank of the river Amu Darya, where the production of gas is planned under production sharing agreement.
Delivery of Chinese oil and gas equipment has a significant share in the volume of trade turnover.