Kyrgyzstan intends to export electricity to China

BISHKEK. March 31 (Interfax) - Kyrgyzstan and China are planning to build a power transmission line, including for the export of electricity to China, the press service of the Kyrgyz government said on Friday following the visit of the head of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Ma Xingrui.

"Following negotiations between the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic - Head of the Presidential Administration Akylbek Zhaparov and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Ma Xingrui, a number of bilateral documents were signed: a memorandum of intent to export electricity to the People's Republic of China; and a memorandum of intent for the construction of a 500 kV power transmission line and small hydropower plants," the statement said.

In addition, an agreement was signed on the establishment of a XUAR PRC - Kyrgyzstan business council, as was a contract for the purchase of cars between the commercial Ili-Sinhe LLP and the Kyrgyz BTK LLC and a number of other documents.

Ma Xingrui is in Bishkek on a working visit, which is meant to consider issues of bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the field of transport, logistics, energy, agriculture, tourism, culture, and education, the statement said.