Xi hails strong ties with Kazakhstan

In February, Tokayev traveled to Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games and met with Xi.

"The strategic navigation offered by the two heads of states maps out blueprints and charts a course for the two sides in rolling out cooperation in various fields," Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Zhang Xiao said in an article published in People's Daily on Wednesday.

The booming pragmatic cooperation between the two countries could be illustrated by their bilateral trade in the first seven months of the year, which reached $17.7 billion, up 18.9 percent year-on-year.