Kazakhstan to take part in third Forum of Interregional Cooperation in XUAR

Kazakhstan to take part in third Forum of Interregional Cooperation in XUAR

Kazakhstan will participate in the third Forum of Interregional Cooperation in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and in the China-Eurasia Expo which will take place in Urumqi on June 26, the government’s press service reports. It is noteworthy that the country has been actively expanding cooperation with the XUAR in recent years. In 2023, mutual trade turnover increased by 70 percent to $20 billion. In the first two months of 2024, the figure amounted to more than $3.5 billion, which is a 90 percent increase compared to the same period last year. To date, Kazakhstan accounts for 40 percent of Xinjiang’s foreign trade turnover.