CRI听力:Premier Li's Three-Nation Tour Fruitful

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has concluded a week-long three-nation tour of Kazakhstan, Serbia and Thailand, reaching a wide range of agreements with leaders of Asian and Central European nations.

Our reporter Yin Xiuqi has the details.

During Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit in Kazakhstan, the two nations agreed to deepen collaboration with a host of confidence-building measures put in place.

The Confidence Building Measures are broadly defined as steps that address, prevent, or resolve uncertainties among states.

The two countries also agreed to jointly establish a technical cooperation center as both sides have huge potential to collaborate in hi-tech fields to promote innovation.

During his stay in the Central Asian nation, Li Keqiang also attended a prime ministers' meeting of the six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed at the meeting to create conducive conditions for expanding cooperation in such sectors as finance, technology, energy and transport.

Later in his visit in Serbia, Premier Li attended a leaders' meeting with China and 16 Central and Eastern European countries in attendance in Belgrade.

China and the 16 nations agreed to enhance connectivity and continuously improve China-Europe international railway container transportation.

China also promised that a 3-billion-US-dollar investment fund will be established to encourage Chinese enterprises to participate in public-private cooperation and the privatization processes in the region.

At his last stop in Thailand, Premier Li met with Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, and the two neighbors agreed to kick-start mutually beneficial cooperation focusing on trading in agricultural products and railways.

Meanwhile, Li Keqiang also attended the fifth summit of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region in Bangkok, that brings together China and five other South East Asian Nations; Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

The Chinese premier said that China will offer 1 billion U.S. dollars for infrastructure development to improve inter-connectivity between the six Asian nations so as to pursue common economic development goals.

For CRI, I'm Yin Xiuqi.