In August 30, 2015 President Nursultan Nazarbayev paid an official visit to China to take part in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Pacific Day. Apart from discussing current issues of mutual interest, the two leaders discussed new opportunities of bilateral trade. The visit ended on September 3 when Nursultan Nazarbayev and 30 foreign government officials and heads of state participated in the military parade in Beijing dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the end of the World War II. Although the two leaders tackled certain political and historical issues, the prevalence of the economic agenda was evident. Nursultan Nazarbayev also attended a meeting with heads of the largest Chinese companies like Xinhua, CITIC Group, Huawei Technologies, Sinopec Group, CNPC, China Investment
Corporation as well as China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank of China, Multilateral Temporary Secretariat of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Silk Road Foundation.
Kanat Makhanov is a research fellow at the Eurasian Institute of the International H.A Yassawi Kazakh-Turkish University. He holds a BA in Business Economics from the KIMEP University from 2012. In 2014 he earned his Masters degree in Economics from the University of Vigo (Spain), completing his thesis on “Industrial Specialization in autonomous regions of Spain and Kazakhstan”. His main research interests are Spatial Economics, Economic Geography, Regional Economics, Human and Economic Geography.