OREANDA-NEWS. On January 07, 2007 Tan Jiaxuan extended the best wishes of President of the PRC Hu Jintao and Premier of the State Council of the PRC Wen Jiabao to the kazakhstani leader on the occasion of New Year and the 16-th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Kazakhstan and China, reported the Official website www.akorda.kz.

He pointed out that the high level of bilateral cooperation had been achieved due to the established trusty and friendly relations between the leaders of China and Kazakhstan.

During the meeting, President of Kazakhstan emphasized that strengthening relations with China was one of the main strategic priorities of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy. Nowadays, bilateral trade and economic cooperation have been expanded especially in non-extractive sectors. As the President pointed out, the implementation of new joint projects would allow the two countries to use the potential of bilateral economic cooperation in full.

In the investment sphere, Kazakhstan puts the development of processing industry and high technology at the forefront. The joint commercial fund established by Sustainable Development Fund ‘Kazyna’ JSC and Chinese ‘CITIC Group’ will play an important role in the implementation of these tasks.

As Tan Jiaxuan pointed out, China intended to provide assistance in the development of bilateral projects in such spheres as metallurgy, transport and mechanical engineering. China’s leaders are interested to involve kazakhstani companies in the implementation of joint investment projects in China.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev also held meetings with governor of the Hainan province Luo Baoming and Chairman of the ‘CITIC’ Group Kong Dan.