OREANDA-NEWS. June 28, 2011. A delegation led by Mr. Liu Weiping, Governor of Gansu Province is on a visit to Turkmenistan during these days.

During the visit to the Turkmen capital the guests had the meetings at the Government and a number of Turkmen ministries and departments, including the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan and the Ashgabat Khyakimlik. In particular, the guests were briefed on the prospects of development of the main city of the country and the possibilities to implement joint projects.

Focusing on the existing tremendous potential to intensify mutually advantageous economic partnership, the meeting participants expressed the keen willingness to steadily build up fruitful Turkmen-Chinese cooperation in key areas, including particularly the trade and economic, fuel and energy, transport and communication sectors, where concerting efforts was deemed to be quite effective.

The members of the Chinese delegation noted with satisfaction that the interstate dialogue had been brought to a qualitatively new level and filled with new ambitious joint projects of national and regional significance, including the XXI century project – the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline project, in recent years due to the prudent policy of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who paid particular attention to promoting wide international cooperation.

Putting emphasis on the importance attached by China to further intensification of full cooperation with Turkmenistan, which had been demonstrating a steady social and economic growth for the past years, Mr. Liu Weiping said that the Chinese provinces were willing to make a significant contribution to further progressive development of traditional friendly relations and cooperation between the Turkmen and Chinese peoples.

The guests from the Celestial Empire visited cultural and historical landmarks of Turkmenistan, in particular the Main National Museum and the Turkmen Carpet Museum.