AKIPRESS.COM - Chairman of Mazhilis, lower house of Kazakh parliament, Nurlan Nigmatulin received Ambassador of China to Kazakhstan Zhang Xiao.

Nurlan Nigmatulin highlighted that thanks to personal friendship and regular contacts between  Nursultan Nazarbayev and Xi Jinping the bilateral cooperation has now reached the level of strategic partnership.

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Xiao said that 2019 will be very crucial and intensive for the further deepening of the bilateral strategic partnership.

Mentioning the dynamic development of Kazakhstan-China relations, Xiao Zhang emphasized that it is thanks to the wise leadership of the presidents of Kazakhstan and China that the Nurly Zhol Program and the Belt and Road Initiative are being successfully integrated.

According to the diplomat, 55 ambitious investment industrial projects are now under implementation, and this year it is planned to launch a number of new projects.

As the promising areas, the Ambassador of China to Kazakhstan also named cultural and humanitarian cooperation, and tourism.

As Nurlan Nigmatulin said, the Chinese MPs' experience in terms of legislative support for, primarily, the reform of innovation development, as well as economic transformations, being implemented in China, is practical interest.