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Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Astana for the second China-Central Asia summit.
The president will also hold separate meetings with the leaders of other Central Asian countries.
Earlier,
the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the summit will further consolidate mutual trust,
promote cooperation,
advance a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future.
For more, we are joined by Qu Qiang,
fellow of the Belt and Road Research Center at Mingshu University of China.
How has China-Central Asia cooperation evolved
since the first summit in Xi'an two years ago,
and what new opportunities has the mechanism created for regional development?
I think many opportunities have been created ever