China and Central Asian Countries Continue to Deepen Cooperation to Open a New Silk Road

Central Asian countries are adjacent to western China. The ancient Silk Road once linked China and Central Asian countries. Central Asian countries have important geopolitical implications for China's continued economic development, expansion of foreign trade, and maintenance of interests. Since the five countries of Central Asia gained independence in the early 1990s, with the joint efforts of both parties, the economic cooperation between China and Central Asian countries has always shown a trend of rapid development and benign intensification. Both sides are in the energy fields such as oil and gas exploration and pipeline infrastructure construction. A fruitful cooperation has been carried out. In recent years, China and Central Asian countries have responded to the needs of international and individual domestic economic development and constantly enriched the content of economic cooperation. Cooperation in non-resource fields such as investment fields and large-scale infrastructure construction has continued to deepen, highlights have become commonplace, and new economic cooperation has been created. situation.

According to statistics, the total volume of trade between China and Central Asian countries increased by nearly 13 times in the first decade of this century alone. Benefiting from the good performance of the Chinese economy in the world economic crisis, bilateral trade volume between China and Central Asian countries showed a recovery trend in 2010. In the first half of 2010, bilateral trade volume between China and Kazakhstan increased by nearly 67% year-on-year. China and Kazakhstan are expected to restore bilateral trade volume to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2010. The significant growth of Central Asian countries’ exports to China is one of the main characteristics of China’s and Central Asian countries’ trade in 2010. This reflects the positive role of China’s economic growth in Central Asian countries. According to Muzabalova, deputy director of the General Institute of Kazakhstan, the "eye-catching" performance of the Chinese economy has had a very positive impact on the overall economic development in Central Asia. China is not only a regional economy but also a world economy. Get out of the crisis "look." At present, China has become Kazakhstan’s third largest trading partner, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan’s second largest trading partner.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan in Almaty City, Osbanov, stated that China’s financial support of approximately 13.5 billion U.S. dollars in important infrastructure construction in Kazakhstan in the last two years has played a very important role in Kazakhstan’s success in overcoming the economic crisis. The role.

At present, Central Asian countries represented by Kazakhstan are striving to create new economic development models and strive to get rid of the situation of relying solely on resource industries to achieve economic diversification. The media in Kazakhstan recently pointed out that China’s domestic economic reforms have been continuously upgraded, and Chinese companies are shifting to the development of high technologies. Sino-Kazakhstan’s economic development strategy can be achieved in this regard. According to Akhkalov, the Counsellor of the Kazakhstan Embassy in China, China and Kazakhstan also have very broad prospects for development cooperation in the fields of agriculture, renewable energy, high-tech and border area construction.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is one of the important platforms for economic cooperation between China and Central Asian countries. China has announced that in the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it will provide a total of more than 10 billion U.S. dollars in benefits to its member states, including Central Asian countries. Professor Seroyeshkin, an expert on China’s affairs at the Kazakhstan Institute of General Studies, pointed out that China’s sincere cooperation without any political conditions has great attraction for its neighboring countries in Central Asia.

Safirov, deputy director of the Directorate General of Tajikistan, believes that with the help of China, strategic projects involving the national economy and people's livelihood of the Ta Nan North Highway and North-South power transmission and transformation lines have been completed and Tajikistan has cooperated with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In the tangible benefits. Safarov said that the pragmatic and mutually beneficial economic cooperation between China and Central Asian countries will effectively promote the economic and social development in Central Asia and maintain lasting peace in Central Asia.