Enthusiasm at Nur-Sultan's Confucius Institute soars

President Xi Jinping's state visit to Kazakhstan is set to boost trust and understanding between people of the two countries, said Yang Lei, Chinese director of Eurasian National University's Confucius Institute in Nur-Sultan.

Yang came to work at the institute at the end of 2017.

"It was a cold November. The temperature was -30 C," Yang recalled. "But I could feel the warmth Kazakh people had toward learning about the Chinese language and culture."