Almaty Mayor, Chinese Ambassador discussed development of cultural, economic relations

ALMATY. March 28. KAZINFORM /Yekaterina Ionava/ Almaty city Mayor Akhmetzhan Yessimov has met with Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Kazakhstan Zhou Li today, the press service of the akimat of the city informs.

The sides discussed issues of realization of the agreements reached during the official visit of the Head of State to China in February. Besides, development of cultural and economic relations has been discussed.

The Mayor of the city emphasized the importance of friendly relations and economic cooperation within the norms regulated by legislation systems of the two countries.

Almaty is an important center of economic cooperation between the two countries in terms of geography and concentration of financial economic development institutions. There are 73 operating Kazakh-Chinese enterprises and 306 Chinese ones in the city.