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Tashkent and Beijing set a $30 billion target

Mirziyoyev and Xi met in Bishkek on Monday and agreed to lift bilateral trade from about $18 billion to $30 billion, by the Uzbek president's press service.

Tashkent and Beijing set a $30 billion target

The stock behind the target: about $60 billion in active joint projects and more than 6,000 joint enterprises operating in Uzbekistan, by the same readout.

The readout names targets and no signed documents.

Named projects run from BYD's expanding electric-vehicle assembly to the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, already under construction, to joint industrial zones in the regions and a cultural programme for 2027 to 2029.

The readout names targets and no signed documents. No horizon either.

Beijing left the same figure in Mongolia's readout this week, there with a 5-year horizon. In Bishkek the number travelled better than the deadlines.

Mirziyoyev invited Xi to make a state visit to Uzbekistan, the press service said.