President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov and President of China Xi Jinping signed the agreement on 9 September 2013 in Tashkent within the official visit of the Chinese leader to Uzbekistan.

The agreement is directed at further strengthening friendship ties and relations of strategic partnership between Uzbekistan and China.

The document determines key directions of developing cooperation in politics, trade-economic, financial-investment, transport, energy, scientific-technical and cultural-humanitarian spheres, mechanism of their implementation.