China called on Friday for combined efforts with Uzbekistan to develop a plan for building the Silk Road Economic Belt and promote greater cooperation in energy, agriculture and production capacity.
Projects that will boost infrastructure development in Mongolia and further the nation's economic cooperation with China and Russia were the focus of discussions by the country's leaders on the sidelines of the 15th SCO Summit.
Pakistan's and India's expected memberships in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will see the body represent "nearly half of the world's population", Pakistan's Ambassador to China Masood Khalid told China Daily.
China will become the president country of BRICS cooperation mechanism starting from January 1, 2017, said Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the foreign head of state with whom Xi has met most frequently over the past two years.
President Xi Jinping says the two countries should use the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to integrate Silk Road initiatives.
President Xi Jinping will attend the seventh BRICS summit and the 15th meeting of the Council of SCO Heads of State in Ufa, Russia.
As pessimists question whether the emerging-economy bloc of BRICS is losing steam, the group's five vastly different countries from four continents are nonetheless taking concrete steps to make themselves shine.
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