Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a bilateral meeting with President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand, said that Beijing and Ashgabat should develop trade and economic ties in the field of Turkmen gas supplies to China, reports TASS with reference to the Xinhua news agency.
“China and Turkmenistan should increase the volume and scale of cooperation in the field of natural gas between the two countries in order to give new impetus to the development and revival of the two countries”, says the report.
Besides that, the Chinese leader noted the need to promote and link up the Chinese trade and economic initiative “One Belt - One Road” and the Turkmen strategy of “reviving the Silk Road”, aimed at developing transport infrastructure in the region and the world.