On December 27, 2021, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) co-organized the Conference of “China and Kazakhstan: 30 years on the Road of Friendship, Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation” along with the Consulate General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Shanghai and the Foreign Policy Research Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (FPRI).

The opening session of the conference was chaired by Dr. Qiang Xiaoyun, Director of Center for Russian & Central Asia Studies of SIIS. Ambassador Bolat Nurgaliyev, Chair of the Board of FPRI, Professor Chen Dongxiao, President of SIIS, Ambassador Galym Koyshibayev, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to China, and Mr. Jiao Huaixin, Minister Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan delivered opening remarks. Mr. Rakhymzhan Rakhimov, Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Shanghai delivered a speech at the closing session.

Nearly twenty experts from FPRI, Institute of World Economy and Politics of the Fund of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - the Leader of the Nation, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Center for China Studies, Kazakh Invest national company, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai International Studies University, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, and SIIS had an in-depth discussion on regional dynamics and the prospect of China-Kazakhstan cooperation in trade and investment.