国内英语资讯:Spotlight: Xis Kazakhstan visit to boost bilateral cooperation, chart course for SCO devel_时事

国内英语资讯:Spotlight: Xis Kazakhstan visit to boost bilateral cooperation, chart course for SCO devel

The Belt and Road Initiative will be another keyword of the Astana summit. "The SCO eyes members' cooperation not only in security, which was indeed the top priority when the bloc was founded more than a decade ago, but also in such areas as economic and trade, culture and people-to-people exchanges," said Sun.

"The Belt and Road Initiative will further highlight China's constructive role within the SCO," he said.

"Comprehensive cooperation at all levels based on mutual trust is indispensable for regional integration. It is also the general direction of the SCO's future work," said Sheng Shiliang, a researcher at the Xinhua Center for World Affairs Studies.

"The Belt and Road Initiative has offered a timely and convenient framework for SCO members to facilitate regional inter-connectivity and achieve free flows of goods, capital, service and technology in the end," he noted.

PROMOTE CLEAN ENERGY COOPERATION

The Chinese pavilion at Astana Expo 2017, under the theme of "future energy," was the first to start construction and the first one put into test operations. Covering around 1,000 square meters, it is also among the largest at the expo.

All these moves show the importance the Chinese leadership attaches to the expo and to the development of clean energy and the battle against climate change, said Sun, the CASS researcher.

The gesture is in line with Xi's proposal to build "a community of shared future for all mankind," and is highly symbolic especially when the global efforts in this regard are encountering the sudden headwind of U.S.withdrawal last week from the hard-won Paris climate deal, said Sheng.