By KazInform
ASTANA (IDN) – China's plans to establish the Silk Road Economic Belt, also known as the One Belt and One Road Initiative, are "great", according to President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, reports Kazinform international news agency.
In an interview aired by China's CCTV-13 channel, Nazarbayev stressed the importance of the state visit to Kazakhstan by Xi Jinping in 2013. It was then that the Chinese leader, in a speech at the Nazarbayev University, for the first time announced the global initiative to create the Silk Road Economic Belt.