President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Chairman of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China, Erkin Tuniyaz on Thursday, the presidential press service said.
The parties discussed priority areas of cooperation, including the development of practical interaction between the regions of Uzbekistan and the XUAR.
Today, this region of China accounts for about 10% of mutual trade between the two countries, and this figure is growing, the report says.
The portfolio of investment projects with companies from the XUAR amounts to 3.5 billion US dollars. It covers such areas as “green” energy and the electrical industry, the construction sector and the production of new types of building materials, metallurgy, infrastructure modernization and others.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev underscored the importance of stepping up the cooperation with the XUAR and expediting the joint projects. The parties outlined innovative technologies, agriculture and water management, transport and logistics, banking and financial sector, education and traditional medicine as the priority areas.
They also discussed the participation of Uzbekistan in the annual Expo China-Eurasia exhibition in Urumqi, the development of humanitarian and tourist ties and the promotion of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan-China railway project.
Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov also held talks with Erkin Tuniyaz on this day, his spokesman said.
The parties discussed expanding cooperation, especially in the areas of investment, industrial cooperation, energy, transport and logistics, agriculture, education, tourism and others.
