Chinese CITIC and Samruk-Kazyna agreed to create joint noncommercial fund
ASTANA. July 4. KAZINFORM. /Valentina Yelizarova/ President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has received a delegation of the Chinese company CITIC in the Astana Akorda residence today.
"We have discussed the projects our company realizes in Kazakhstan", Kong Dan, the CITIC Chairman of the Board said after the meeting. "Along with the project "Karazhanbasmunai" we pay big attention to projects in the non-primary sphere", he added.
He informed of the agreement reached between his company and "Samruk-Kazyna" National Welfare Fund on creation of the joint noncommercial fund designed for the investment of projects in the non-primary sphere.
"We are also speeding up the process of talks on participation in the bitumen plant", Mr. Kong Dan said. Besides, he named several more projects CITIC is ready to take part in. They are the construction of Khorgos-Almaty highway, creation of digital television in Kazakhstan, opening of supermarket of facing materials for Kazakhstani consumers and joint center of Chinese medicine.