Key outcomes of the second China-Central Asia Summit

A wide range of cooperation consensuses reached between China and the five Central Asian countries:

・ 55 cooperation documents, including:

The Astana Declaration of the Second China-Central Asia Summit

A Treaty on Eternal Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between China and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

A China-Central Asia Initiative on Facilitating Personnel Exchanges

An Action Plan for High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation between China and Central Asian Countries

・ 31 cooperation measures and initiatives were put forward, including:

The formulation of the "China-Central Asia Spirit"

Identification of six priority areas: unimpeded trade, industrial investment, connectivity, green minerals, agricultural modernization and people-to-people exchanges.

Reaffirmation of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, with all parties pledging to prohibit any activities within their territories that violate this principle.

Commitment to diversifying trade structures, streamlining trade procedures, and upgrading the China-Central Asia investment agreement.

Improving the facilitation of personnel exchanges and carrying out cooperation in consular affairs, connectivity and tourism.

Support for establishing a China-Central Asia energy development partnership and expanding cooperation across the entire energy value chain.

Agreement to enrich youth exchanges and conduct joint archaeology, Silk Road history and heritage research, museum exchanges and repatriation of lost cultural relics.

A theme year will be designated every two years, and 2025 and 2026 have been designated as the "Years of High-Quality Development of China-Central Asia Cooperation".

・ The following cooperation platforms were established:

The China-Central Asia poverty reduction cooperation center

The China-Central Asia education exchange cooperation center

The China-Central Asia desertification control cooperation center

The China-Central Asia smooth trade cooperation platform