China-Kazakhstan Ties: 6th China-Kazakhstan Entrepreneurs Committee held in Beijing
Updated 11:54, 12-Sep-2019
The sixth meeting of the China-Kazakhstan Entrepreneurs Committee has been held in Beijing. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who was in attendance at the meeting on Wednesday, delivered a speech saying China is Kazakhstan's largest and most important trading partner. Last year, bilateral trade between the two reached twelve billion US dollars, an increase of over 14 percent from 2017. By the end of 2018, China had invested about twenty billion dollars in Kazakhstan in energy, finance and other fields. Kazakhstan is looking to expand cooperation with China in areas including agriculture and tourism. President Tokayev says he hopes to boost cooperation with more Chinese companies, such as those working in big data, the internet, AI and supercomputers. At Wednesday's meeting, about 20 documents on cooperation were signed with about three hundred representatives of entrepreneurs from the two countries in attendance.