Strengthening policy coordination and expanding industrial cooperation between China and Eurasian countries will generate new growth momentum, deepen regional economic integration and enhance regional connectivity, senior government officials from both sides said on Thursday.
While delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the 9th China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang said China is willing to work with Eurasian countries to strengthen policy coordination, better align development strategies and industrial planning, and deepen economic integration.
Ding said China will further expand market access and open more sectors to foreign investment, increase imports of high-quality products and broaden opportunities for two-way investment, allowing more businesses and people across Eurasia to benefit from China’s development.
Running from Thursday to Monday, the expo has attracted companies and institutions from 49 countries, regions and international organizations this year. The United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Russia and Thailand are making their debut with national pavilions at this year’s event, according to Xinjiang’s regional government.
Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Erlist Akunbekov said Kyrgyzstan’s state-owned banks have already been connected to China’s payment system, and the two sides are discussing a local currency swap agreement between their central banks.
Kyrgyzstan also hopes to deepen cooperation with China in renewable energy, including the construction and modernization of hydropower stations, as the Central Asian country seeks to achieve its carbon neutrality goals by making greater use of its abundant hydropower resources, said Akunbekov, who also is the country’s minister of water resources, agriculture and processing industry.
Meanwhile, Serik Zhumangarin, Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister and minister of national economy, said despite a complex global economic environment, trade between China and Kazakhstan has maintained strong growth, underscoring the high degree of complementarity between the two economies.
He said Kazakhstan is ready to expand exports of its priority products, including agricultural, food and metallurgical goods, to the Chinese market, while supporting greater access for Kazakh products to Xinjiang and strengthening regional economic cooperation.
Xinjiang’s imports increased 17.6 percent year-on-year to 27.57 billion yuan ($4.06 billion) in the first five months of 2026. The region’s total foreign trade reached 520.37 billion yuan in 2025, up 19.9 percent from a year earlier, data from Urumqi Customs showed.
Xiao Fageng, sales director at Warsonco Intelligent Technology (Guangdong) Co, an industrial robot manufacturer in Dongguan, Guangdong province, said as Central Asian countries accelerate industrialization and urbanization, demand for industrial robots is rising.
The company has seen a marked increase in orders from Central Asia during the January-May period.
Dongguan’s exports of industrial robots exceeded 160 million yuan between January and May, with products sold to more than 60 countries and regions. Shipments to emerging markets, including Thailand, Mexico and Central Asian countries, have grown rapidly, with products ranging from welding and handling robots to assembly robots, statistics from Huangpu Customs in Guangdong showed.
According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, trade between China and Central Asian countries exceeded $100 billion for the first time last year.
China has also become the largest trading partner and a major source of investment for Central Asian countries.
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