Vice Minister Qu Dongyu meets Kazakhstan counterpart
DATE:2016-01-29 SOURCE:MOA
Vice Minister Qu Dongyu met with Isayeva Gulmira Sultanbaevna, Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in Beijing on January 28, 2016. The two sides exchanged views on strengthening bilateral agricultural cooperation.
Qu pointed out that China and Kazakhstan have maintained traditional friendly relationship and the ancient Silk Road witnessed the time-honored friendship between the two peoples. Over recent years the bilateral agricultural cooperation has made great progress, and the two countries have also carried out sound collaboration under the framework of SCO. Both sides have provided support to each other to push forward agricultural cooperation of SCO. To further promote future cooperation, Qu put forward a three-point proposal:
first, create a favorable investment environment for enterprises, intensify cooperation in food safety, and boost mutual investment and agricultural trade;
second, beef up S&T exchanges and human resource development cooperation;
third, strengthen cooperation on multilateral issues under the framework of FAO and SCO.
On behalf of Minister Han Changfu, Vice Minister Qu invited Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the upcoming G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting in Xi'an in early June.
Isayeva Gulmira Sultanbaevna fully agreed with Qu on his suggestions and underlined that Kazakhstan is ready to work together with China to push forward agricultural cooperation.
