On December 16, 2015, President Xi Jinping met in Wuzhen of Zhejiang Province with Prime Minister Karim Massimov of Kazakhstan.
Xi Jinping firstly expressed that today is the Independence Day of Kazakhstan. I, on behalf of the Chinese government and people, extend festival greetings to the people of Kazakhstan. Xi Jinping pointed out that this year witnesses the rapid development of China-Kazakhstan comprehensive strategic partnership and many highlights and results from bilateral cooperation in various areas. We should keep up the good work and forge ahead to translate the high-level political mutual trust and close strategic collaboration into more substantial cooperation results so as to bring more benefits to both peoples.
Xi Jinping stressed that China-Kazakhstan cooperation has solid foundation and great development prospect. Both sides should deepen the integration of interests through the connection of the building of Silk Road Economic Belt and the development strategy of “Bright Road”. Both sides should also earnestly carry out production capacity cooperation as well as push forward the implementation of the agreed cooperation projects at an early date to achieve mutual benefits and win-win results. The Chinese side will support the construction of the China-Kazakhstan Lianyungang international logistic cooperation base and the Horgos international border cooperation center, and actively participate in the domestic transportation infrastructure projects in Kazakhstan in order to enhance connectivity. China is willing to jointly discuss the free trade arrangements with Kazakhstan to promote trade liberalization and enhance people-to-people and cultural exchanges and facilitate personnel exchanges. Security cooperation should also be strengthened to jointly combat the “three evil forces” as well as cross-border organized crimes such as drug and weapon smuggling. Both sides need to keep close multilateral security cooperation with countries in the region.
Karim Massimov noted that Kazakhstan and China enjoy friendly relations and frequent high-level exchanges. The Kazakh side is actively implementing the consensus reached by President Nursultan Nazarbayev and President Xi Jinping on deepening bilateral relations so as to comprehensively push forward bilateral practical cooperation. Kazakhstan fully supports the “Silk Road Economic Belt” initiative and is dovetailing its development strategy of “Bright Road” with the initiative. Kazakhstan is willing to take it as an opportunity to push for positive results from bilateral cooperation in various areas including economy and trade, production capacity and infrastructure. Kazakhstan supports China in hosting the G20 Summit in Hangzhou.
Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu, Yang Jiechi and others attended the meeting.