Li Qiang arrived in Dushanbe on Sunday 18 October on an official visit and held talks that day with prime minister Kohir Rasulzoda, Asia-Plus reported, citing the presidential press service. Emomali Rahmon received him on Monday. The five documents signed after the premiers’ talks are an agreement in the field of development and four memoranda, on vocational education, infrastructure and engineering construction, the prevention of and fight against corruption, and standardisation.
Trade between the two countries exceeded $2.5 billion in January to August 2026, the presidential press service said. Rasulzoda put the count of agreements signed since Rahmon’s state visit to China in May 2026 at more than 30, and the talks turned on widening the list of Tajik goods exported to China, new protocols for market access and joint ventures to process cotton into finished products.
Rahmon and Li discussed new projects in industry, energy, transport, infrastructure and agriculture, artificial intelligence, jobs and training, the press service said, without sums. Li said China was ready to support Tajikistan’s development and to help carry out joint priority projects.
Trade between the two countries exceeded $2.5 billion in January to August 2026, the presidential press service said.
The visit precedes the Council of Heads of Government of the SCO, which sits in Dushanbe on Tuesday 20 October. Mikhail Mishustin arrived on Monday and met Iran’s first vice-president Mohammad Reza Aref, Interfax reported overnight, and the agenda it lists runs to the organisation’s strategy to 2035, a digital platform for multimodal overland cargo and a railway initiative, with the outcome to be recorded in a joint communiqué. Daniyar Amangeldiev, who represents Kyrgyzstan at the council, met Rahmon on Tuesday, 24.kg reported.