Participants of the second friendly dialogue of cross-border cooperation between Kazakhstan and China, which was held in Almaty during the official visit of Ma Xinzhui, member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, to Kazakhstan agreed on strengthening of bilateral economic relations.
A wide range of issues of trade and economic cooperation were discussed by Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov and the Secretary of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of PRC, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the 20th Convocation Ma Xingzhui, who arrived on his first visit to Kazakhstan.