Welcome is a testimony of friendship

No ties, no flags and no statements.

The leaders of China and Kazakhstan continued their second day of in-depth discussions as they joined each other for meals.

President Xi Jinping and his counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev started Sunday with a one-hour breakfast on the plane that flew them from Astana, the capital, to Almaty, the economic and cultural center. They ate Chinese pickles and millet congee.