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China the Largest Market for Kazakhstan’s Agricultural Products

The Kazakh minister for agriculture, Aidarbek Saparov, has named China the largest market for Kazakhstani agricultural products. Kazakhstan mainly exports grain and oilseeds to China, and imports Chinese vegetables and nuts. In 2023 Kazakhstan’s agricultural exports to China doubled and reached $1 billion. In the first five months of this year, bilateral agricultural trade increased by 14%. It reached $540 million, including Kazakhstan’s exports at $380 million. Kazakhstan has signed protocols with China on the export of 27 types of agricultural products to the Chinese market, including 18 types of crop products and nine types of livestock products. Currently, nine Kazakh companies export livestock products, and 728 companies export crop products. They are waiting to be included in China’s importers register. Kazakhstan's agriculture ministry has signed a protocol with China's customs service to harmonise veterinary requirements for the export of various types of animals and livestock products, including cattle skins, dry mare's milk, frozen poultry products, horse meat, offal obtained from slaughtering animals, meat products that have undergone high heat treatment, as well as chilled beef and lamb. Saparov noted that Kazakhstan is among the world’s top 25 food exporters, exporting Kazakh agricultural products to 80 countries. Over the past five years its agricultural exports have doubled, reaching $5.4 billion. “We intend to continue increasing these figures. In the context of a growing food deficit [in the world], our country seeks to double agricultural exports by 2029,” he said, adding that Kazakhstan is changing the structure of agricultural exports, giving preference to deeply processed products, the exports of which have doubled over the past five years, reaching $2.3 billion.

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Turkmenistan Discusses Transit Logistics With Company From China’s Shandong

Ashgabat recently hosted a working meeting between representatives of the Turkmen Logistics Association and the Chinese logistics company Shandong Hi-Speed Qilu Eurasia Railway Logistics Co., a key operator in China's Shandong province. The two sides discussed prospects for cooperation in logistics, noting Turkmenistan's growing potential as an important transit hub. The country's convenient geographical location, and its active investment in the development of transport infrastructure -- including the automation of customs procedures and the use of modern equipment -- are reasons for a recent increase in the volume of cargo transportation through Turkmenistan. The Chinese delegation led by Liu Junfeng, head of the company's representative office in Uzbekistan and head of the branch in Kazakhstan, emphasized interest in strengthening cooperation with Turkmenistan. Shandong Hi-Speed Qilu Eurasia Railway Logistics Co. specializes in rail and road freight transportation and has representative offices in many countries.

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China Supports Kazakhstan’s Bid to Join BRICS

Beijing has officially supported Kazakhstan's application to join BRICS, a group of emerging economies founded by Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2009, which South Africa joined a year later. In January of this year, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE were also admitted as full members. The Anadolu Agency reports that Kazakhstan's bid to join became known after a meeting between Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Xi Jinping last week. According to the Chinese leader, “China and Kazakhstan are walking side by side on the road to modernization.” Xi Jinping noted a great synergy between the two countries and said he supports the application. During the meeting, the president of Kazakhstan also supported China's initiative to "create a community [for the] common destiny of mankind," expressing his country's readiness to "constructively support" issues related to its realization.

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Tajikistan and China Tighten Strategic Partnership

On his state visit to Tajikistan on July 5, Chinese President Xi Jinping confirmed China’s unwavering support of the country’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, and ready to develop a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, engaged in negotiations with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe. Opening the meeting, Rahmon said that for Tajikistan, strengthening a comprehensive strategic partnership with China is a priority, and added that Dushanbe firmly supports the one-China principle and opposes any form of Taiwan independence. As reported by Rahmon’s press service, the leaders discussed expanding cooperation in trade and economy, as well as Chinese investment in industry, energy, transport, agriculture, digitization of the economy, and artificial intelligence. Today, over 700 of Tajikistan’s industrial enterprises, including mining and mineral processing, are financed by Chinese capital, and looking ahead, the leaders earmarked the joint production of green technologies, and in particular, electric cars, solar panels and smart electric grids, as promising areas for cooperation. Following the talks, the Chinese president told journalists that the two sides agreed to focus on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, promote the synergy of the two countries’ development strategies, and assist each other's modernization drive. Xi also announced China’s readiness to increase its importation of quality products from Tajikistan and pledged support for boosting the country’s transit potential. Later in the day, the Chinese and Tajik presidents attended the inauguration of new parliament and government buildings in Dushanbe, built with China’s support. As testimony to the strong relationship between the two, Xi Jinping presented President Rahmon with the Friendship Medal of the People's Republic of China; the first time the award has been received by anyone outside China.

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Universities of Kazakhstan and China to Cooperate on Microsatellite Launch

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the Northwest Polytechnic University of China have agreed to conduct joint scientific research using microsatellites. According to the press service of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the agreement was reached during talks between the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Xi Jinping, during the latter's official visit to Kazakhstan. The initiative, the first of its kind to be implemented by Kazakh universities, opens up new opportunities for space research, training qualified specialists, and developing joint satellites, as well as enabling remote sensing studies of the Earth via a microsatellite. Integral to the project, is an aim to develop equipment for gravimetric measurements, including a specialized ground station and a transmitter on the satellite, designed to detect density inhomogeneities in the Earth's crust and mantle. The employment of such, will help solve fundamental problems in the study of geodynamic processes at great depths. The North-West Polytechnic University of China is a leader in launching objects into space whilst Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, the only Kazakh university with experience in launching nanosatellites into orbit , has already launched its own Al-Farabi-1 and Al-Farabi-2 nanosatellites.

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China Invests over $5 billion in Tajikistan’s Energy Sector

Since gaining independence, Tajikistan has implemented 35 energy projects with financial assistance from China of over $5.3 billion, reports Tajikistan's Ministry of Energy and Water Resources press service The Export-Import Bank of China has provided $880 million in soft loans to support projects financed by the PRC include the Dushanbe TPP-2, the Dushanbe-500 and Sughd-500 500 kW electric substations, the South-North 500 kW power transmission line (263.8 km), Rogun (263.8 km), Rogun-Dushanbe (198 km), 220 kW substations in Lolazor, Khatlon, Aini, Shakhriston, and Shahrinav, as well as 220 kW transmission lines from Lolazor to Khatlon and from Khujand to Aini. Tajikistan's energy sector has also benefitted from direct investments of $197 million by Chinese companies. Participants in the realization of investment projects in the country, as contractors and suppliers of equipment, currently include: leading design and construction company, Power Construction Corporation of China Limited (Power China), electrical and photovoltaic company TBEA Company Limited, one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, Huawei, energy company Sinohydro International Engineering, transformer equipment manufacturer Pinggao Group Co Ltd, and one of the largest electronics manufacturers Shenzhen Kaifa Technology. Within the oil and gas sector, Tajikistan has established cooperation with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The company, which conducts geophysical work, will begin seismic exploration of an area covering thousands of square kilometres, at the end of July 2024. Over the past year, memoranda on renewable energy development have been signed with TBEA and Powerchain leading to the funding and construction of a series of solar and wind power plants with a total capacity of 1,500 MW in Tajikistan.