The deals were reached during an official visit of the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov to China.

In particular, a three-flights-a-week cargo air communication between Navoi air hub and that of China – Tianjin – is to open on 1 July 2012.

Furthermore, regular flights are soon to link Navoi airport with China’s major industrial centers – Shanghai and Guangzhou, along with passenger air traffic to open between Urumqi and Tashkent.

The two sides expressed comprehensive support for a soonest execution of the project to construct the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway designed to secure a shortest transport route from the PRC to Central and South Asia.

A deal has been struck by the two sides to expand the capacities of gas transportation from Central Asia to China. The two countries have been energetic and enthusiastic about the project of construction and use of the Uzbekistan-China gas pipeline that will allow for establishing a stable transit corridor for longer-term gas supplies to the PRC.