As of the morning of April 27, the China-Central Asia pipeline had pumped a total of one billion cubic meters of natural gas. Daily deliveries exceed 7.5 million cubic meters, Xinhua reported.

Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China pipeline, which was launched on December 15, 2009, begins near the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan border and crosses central Uzbekistan and the southern part of Kazakhstan on its way to the Chinese border town of Horgos. There, the pipeline joins the second line of the West-East pipeline. The pipeline is 1,833 kilometers long.