07:00, 07 September 2013 | GMT +5
Nursultan Nazarbayev and Chinese President Xi Jinping will open I Session of the Kazakh-Chinese Business Council in Astana
ASTANA. September 7. KAZINFORM – Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived with the first state visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

It is expected today at Akorda residence Nursultan Nazarbayev and Xi Jinping will hold a bilateral meeting, exchange views on some issues of international and regional issues and then take part in a press conference on the talks' results.
It should be noted that in addition to bilateral talks at the highest level there will be carried out a number of major events, one of which will be the session of the Kazakh-Chinese Business Council (KCBC).
Following the round table a number of agreements in the fields of energy, transportation, oil and gas are expected to be signed. KCBC session will be attended by more than one hundred companies of the two countries.