Kazakhstan to get $100 million from China for a wind power plant project; The Presidents of China and Kyrgyzstan sign several bilateral agreements
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    • (SEPTEMBER 16-22)

    According to a deal signed by the Chinese President Xi Jingping with his counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Pavlodar region in Northern Kazakhstan will get a $100 million funding from China to construct a wind power plant. The deal was signed during the Kazakhstan-Chinese Business Council meeting held at Astana on September 7, 2013. The 50MW wind power plant will be constructed in the Palvodar province of Kazakhstan. 1

    In another development, the Chinese President Xi Jingping met his Kyrgyz counterpart, Almazbek Atambayev in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on September 11, 2013. During the meeting several bilateral agreements were signed which were mainly related to technical and economic cooperation, cooperation in construction and operation of the gas pipeline Kyrgyz – China, construction of the highway connecting the north and south in Kyrgyzstan, cooperation on Kyrgyz refinery with capacity of 800,000 tons per year. A Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the Ministry of Health and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine was also signed during the meeting. In the end a joint declaration of the Kyrgyz Republic and China was signed to establish a strategic partnership between the nations. 2

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