Over 30 interstate documents signed during Chinese president's visit to Kazakhstan

ASTANA. July 3 (Interfax) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a joint statement and more than 30 interparty, interstate, interagency and commercial documents following their talks in Astana on Wednesday, the Kazakh presidential press service said.

The package includes a roadmap for implementing the program of trade and economic cooperation between the Kazakh and Chinese governments and an intergovernmental agreement on technical and economic cooperation.

Kazakhstan's Science and Higher Education Ministry and the Chinese Education Ministry signed an agreement on cooperation in teaching the Chinese language, while the Kazakh National Academy of Sciences and Shenzhen University signed an agreement on cooperation in creating joint laboratories.

The set of documents signed by Kazakh and Chinese universities includes an agreement on creating a Kazakh-Chinese international laboratory to facilitate highly efficient water management in arid districts, an agreement on setting up the two countries' smart agriculture center, an agreement on establishing a Kazakh-Chinese center of agricultural science and education, and an agreement of understanding in microsatellite research and talent education.

Kazakhstan's Energy Ministry and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a framework agreement on further cooperation in strategic energy projects.

The parties also signed over 20 memoranda, among them a memorandum on exchanges and cooperation between the Amanat party and the Communist Party of China, a memorandum of understanding between the Kazakh Transport Ministry and China's National Development and Reform Commission to expand the two countries' cross-border railroad, a memorandum of understanding aimed at enhancing cooperation on strategic minerals used in environment- friendly energy technologies, a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in ensuring control and safety of mutually supplied goods, a memorandum on cooperation as part of the International Lunar Research Station, and a memorandum of understanding on digital currency cooperation.