Chinese President Hu Jintao left Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, Saturday for home after concluding a state visit to the neighboring country.
Hu met with leaders of Kazakhstan Saturday to exchange views on promoting all-round cooperation between the two countries. Top leaders of the two countries pledged to take steps to enhance the China-Kazakhstan strategic partnership.
They also discussed important regional and world issues of common concern.
During Hu's visit, the two countries signed a number of documents on political, economic and trade cooperation.
In recent years, the two countries have achieved fruitful results from cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, energy and transportation. The China-Kazakhstan trade volume hit 8.36 billion U.S. dollars last year, up 22.8 percent over the previous year. The trade volume for the first half of this year reached 5.97 billion dollars, up 60.4 percent over the same period of last year.
China and Kazakhstan have made impressive achievements in cracking down on the "three evil forces" of terrorism, separatism and extremism, and cooperated well within the framework of the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
The Chinese president arrived in Astana Friday from Russia's Chelyabinsk, where he observed a joint anti-terrorism drill staged by troops of the six SCO member states, together with topleaders of the other SCO member states.
Before the stay in Russia, Hu paid a state visit to Kyrgyzstan and attended an SCO summit in Bishkek.
Source: Xinhua
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