Inexhaustible well of friendship between China and Kazakhstan

President Xi Jinping's state visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries will usher in the next "30 golden years" of bilateral cooperation.

President Xi will also pay a state visit to Uzbekistan on Thursday and Friday, during which he will attend the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

This is President Xi's first foreign trip in more than two years, and its timing is of profound significance. As the Foreign Ministry said, his trip represents China's most important head-of-state diplomatic event ahead of the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.