On January 25th, as part of his state visit to China, Uzbekistan’s president Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the Uzbek-Chinese Investment Forum in the city of Shenzhen. The forum brought together heads of government agencies and regions in the two countries, and more than 600 representatives of large Chinese companies.
Mr Mirziyoyev outlined priorities and promising areas for Uzbek-Chinese cooperation. These included simplifying the procedure for attracting funds from Chinese financial institutions for infrastructure development projects, industrial cooperation in priority sectors of the economy, and processing of strategic raw materials.
Mirziyoyev stressed the need to adopt Chinese technologies in sustainable agriculture, and to introduce scientific approaches to land rehabilitation.
