Chinese and Foreign Experts Discuss Silk Road Economic Belt and China-Kazakhstan Cooperation

      From December 12 to 13, the Silk Road Economic Belt and China-Kazakhstan Cooperation International Symposium was held in Wuhan University with the attempt to build a high-end and efficient platform for Chinese and Kazakhstan scholars to conduct academic exchanges.

     The symposium was co-sponsored by the Collaborative Innovation Center for Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights, Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies, and WTO Law Research Society of China Law Society.

         More than 40 experts and scholars from universities and research institutions submitted papers and attended this symposium, including scholars and experts from Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics & Strategic Research, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, University Of International Business and Economics, China University of Political science and Law, Fudan University, Wuhan University, etc.

       Discussions and dialogues were conducted around topics such as the development of Silk Road economic belt and Eurasian integration, China-Kazakhstan cooperation and mutual learning under the WTO framework, the Silk Road economic development and trade, finance, cross-border cooperation, the Silk Road economic belt construction and energy, investment, industrial cooperation, the Silk Road economic belt construction and China- Kazakhstan strategic cooperation.

          In his keynote speech, Professor Zeng Lingliang, director of the Wuhan University Institute of International Law and Senior Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, analyzed the issues of One Belt One Road under the trend of global governance. Professor Lu Xiankun, China’s former Permanent Counselor to WTO and Professor of University Of International Business and Economics, expressed his opinions on the economic and trade cooperation between China and Kazakhstan.