As the world's first cross-border free trade zone, Khorgos has opened a blueprint for cooperation in Central Asia. Wang Shouwen, Chairman of the Ministerial Coordination Mechanism of the China-Kazakhstan Khorgos International Border Cooperation Center, Deputy Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative of International Trade Negotiations, said on March 1 that the China-Kazakhstan Khorgos International Border Cooperation Center is promoting China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The key cooperation projects that link up with Kazakhstan's "Bright Road" new economic policy have important exemplary significance for China-Kazakhstan economic and trade cooperation.

Cooperation Center promotes bilateral border trade cooperation

Since 2020, positive progress has been made in the construction and development of the cooperation center. With the major strategic results achieved in the prevention and control of the epidemic, the Chinese area of the cooperation center has resumed operations and resumed work and production in an orderly manner.

Wang Shouwen said that in the face of the challenges posed by the new crown epidemic to the development of the cooperation center, he is willing to work with Kazakhstan to implement the various economic and trade consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and plan the next step of the cooperation center. It is hoped that the Kazakhstan side will promote the establishment of a contact mechanism between the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Almaty Prefecture of Kazakhstan, and approve the construction of the cooperation center container lifting channel to ensure the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain; hope that the two sides will strengthen anti-epidemic cooperation, close communication and contact, and implement cooperation The results of the first meeting of the central ministerial-level coordination mechanism accelerated the negotiation and signing of relevant agreements and promoted the cooperation center to become a bright spot for cooperation between the two countries.

Tolebayev said that since the global crisis of the new crown epidemic, China and Kazakhstan have always maintained a cooperative concept of mutual support and promoted new progress in the construction of bilateral economic and trade cooperation and cooperation centers. Kazakhstan attaches great importance to and actively supports the establishment of a contact mechanism between the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Almaty Prefecture of Kazakhstan, and the construction of the cooperation center's container lifting channel; it is willing to strengthen communication and cooperation with the Chinese side to ensure the smooth flow of port freight, and support the holding of relevant forums in the cooperation center. Further promote the development of cooperation centers and make more contributions to cooperation between the two countries. Editor/Xu Shengpeng