Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- First Deputy Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Aziz Voitov held talks with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Uzbekistan Jiang Yan.

On the agenda are topical issues of bilateral cooperation and further measures to implement the agreements reached following the conversation between the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China.

During the conversation, which took place in a traditionally warm and friendly atmosphere, it was noted that under the leadership of the Heads of the two states, relations between the countries are consistently strengthening in all priority areas.

Cooperation is developing in trade and economic, investment, financial and technical, transport and logistics, banking and other areas.

The parties determined further actions for the implementation of the intergovernmental program of trade, economic and investment cooperation for 2022-2026, signed during the visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to China in February this year.

The Chinese side supported the initiative to hold on March 25 within the framework of the Tashkent International Investment Forum the Uzbek-Chinese forum “Industrial cooperation. New opportunities".

Measures were discussed to prepare for the events taking place this year in Uzbekistan under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Following the talks, the parties expressed their readiness to intensify further cooperation to improve the efficiency of bilateral investment, trade and economic cooperation.