

Time rolls on just like the flow of water. These four principles are a valuable experience and shared asset we have gained from cooperation they are a political guarantee for the steady and sustained growth of China’s relations with Central Asian countries and they are a source of inspiration for us to further advance friendly exchanges. The key to the successful cooperation between China and the five Central Asian countries over the past three decades lies in our abiding commitment to mutual respect, good-neighborly friendship, solidarity in trying times, and mutual benefit.

We have thus safeguarded our legitimate rights and strategic interests, promoted greater democracy in international relations, and steered the international order toward greater justice and equity. As defenders of multilateralism, we have rendered mutual support on issues concerning each other’s core interests, and spoken up for each other at critical moments. ― Over the past 30 years, we have stood by each other and staunchly upheld justice. It is heartwarming episodes like this one that have formed a stirring symphony of Chinese and Central Asian people supporting each other through thick and thin. “I am a foreigner, but I am not an outsider.” These words of Ismail Daurov, a young Kazakh helping with the local COVID-19 response in Shaanxi province, have touched the hearts of many in China. The 58 pairs of sister cities and the hundreds of thousands of mutual visits every year help carry forward a friendship of over 2,000 years between the people of our countries. ― Over the past 30 years, we have enhanced mutual understanding and affinity through mutual exchanges. Together, we have firmly upheld our common security interests and peace and stability in our region. Following the new thinking of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, we have combined efforts to fight the three forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism, transnational organized crime and drug trafficking and to resolutely reject external interference or attempts to instigate color revolutions. ― Over the past 30 years, we have shared weal and woe and pursued common security. Guided by the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, Belt and Road cooperation between China and Central Asian countries is burgeoning and bearing fruits in Central Asia. The China-Europe Railway Express which runs through Central Asia has seen rapid growth. Several big projects have been successfully completed, including the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline, the China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan highway, and the China-Tajikistan expressway. Two-way trade and investment have grown over a hundred times. ― Over the past 30 years, we have joined hands in a common pursuit of development. We have established strategic partnerships, deepening political trust and mutually beneficial cooperation, blazing a new trail of good-neighborly friendship and win-win cooperation, and setting a good example of fostering a new type of international relations. On the basis of mutual understanding and accommodation, we have completely resolved boundary issues left from history, turning the over 3,300 kilometers of shared borders into a bond of friendship, mutual trust and cooperation.

― Over the past 30 years, we have followed the trend of the times, honored commitment and promoted amity. The Chinese people often say, “One should be able to establish himself at the age of 30.” The exchanges and cooperation between China and Central Asian countries, now in their 30th year, have been established on the basis of sincerity, mutual trust, equality and mutual benefit. President of the People’s Republic of ChinaĪt the Virtual Summit to Commemorate the 30th Anniversary ofĭiplomatic Relations Between China and Central Asian Countries
