On December 20, 2024, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin, upon invitation, attended and addressed the meeting of the Club of Friends of Kazakhstan in China.

Liu Bin said that the past year has been a "harvest year" for the development of China-Kazakhstan relations. President Xi Jinping paid a successful state visit to Kazakhstan, and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attended the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in China. The two heads of state made new arrangements and plans for the development of China-Kazakhstan relations. The various departments of the two governments have frequent exchanges, and cooperation in various fields has been resilient and dynamic.

Liu Bin pointed out that next year will be another "great year" for China-Kazakhstan relations. The two sides will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit and the second China-Central Asia Summit, respectively. China is ready to work with Kazakhstan to support each other in successfully holding these two major diplomatic events. China is willing to work with Kazakhstan to boost each other's modernization through high-quality mutually beneficial cooperation and jointly build an even closer China-Kazakhstan community with a shared future.

Kazakh Ambassador to China Nuryshev Shakhrat said that Kazakhstan and China have established a high-level permanent comprehensive strategic partnership, and there are no outstanding issues between the two countries. In recent years, under the personal care and promotion of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and President Xi Jinping, Kazakhstan-China relations have continuously made new breakthroughs and achieved new outcomes. The bilateral trade volume between the two countries is expected to reach a new high, and cooperation in various fields such as connectivity, energy, mining, tourism and education is comprehensively deepening. Kazakhstan is steadily advancing the building of a "Fair Kazakhstan", and is willing to work with China to leverage the leading role of head-of-state diplomacy to strengthen the exchange of experience in state governance, pass on the everlasting friendship, expand all-round mutually beneficial cooperation, and inject new and strong impetus into the development of bilateral relations.

Chinese and Kazakh friendly people, scholars, media representatives and others attended the meeting.