Xinhua News Agency, Nur-Sultan, September 14 (Reporter Hao Weiwei Zhang Jiye) On the morning of September 14, President Xi Jinping left Beijing by special plane to attend the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in Samarkand. The meeting, and at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Tokayev and the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Mirziyoyev, will pay state visits to the two countries.
Accompanying the visit were: Ding Xuexiang, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee; Yang Jiechi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee; Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission Chairman He Lifeng, etc.
On the afternoon of the 14th local time, when Xi Jinping's special plane arrived at Nur-Sultan International Airport, Kazakh President Tokayev led his government's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Treuberdi, Nur-Sultan Mayor Kuriginov and other senior officials at the airport. Warm welcome at the airport.
Zhang Xiao, Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan, also greeted him at the airport.