Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Chinese President Hu Jintao's agreement to deepen cooperation between China and Kazakhstan is a clear manifestation that the strategic partnership between the countries is working.

Moreover, the policy of peaceful development is helping to foster an atmosphere of friendly economic relations that is bringing food and energy security not only to Central Asian but to the entire Asia-Pacific region.

Agreements signed during their meetings in Almaty to enlarge the Kazakhstan-China crude oil pipeline, which is sending crude overland to China, together with the opening of the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline last December, have created a stable and secure energy link between the producing nations of Central Asia and Chinese consumers.