On June 10, 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon in Tashkent.

Hu said Sino-Tajik ties had witnessed healthy and smooth development in recent years, saying the two countries maintained close exchanges at high levels, increasingly deep mutual political trust and further expanded practical cooperation in various sectors. The two sides supported each other firmly on major issues of mutual concerns and coordinated and cooperated with each other within multilateral mechanisms, including the UN and the SCO, which safeguarded the core interests of the two countries effectively, Hu said.

Hu said China had always attached importance to the development of the Sino-Tajik relations on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. China firmly supported Tajikistan for its efforts on safeguarding sovereignty and stability and boosting national economic development, he said, adding China was willing to work with Tajikistan to push forward development of the good-neighborly and friendly cooperation.

Hu said cooperation between the two countries developed smoothly in the sectors of economy and trade, telecommunication, mining, and agriculture and infrastructure, which gave impetus to the two countries' economic and social development. In the next stage, Hu proposed the two sides should set up a mechanism for port cooperation, streamline customs procedures and support bilateral economic and trade cooperation. The two countries should give full play to their advantages of geographical proximity and economic complementarity, expand cooperation in the fields of infrastructure, agriculture and mining and upgrade economic and trade cooperation. China was ready to work with Tajikistan to strengthen cooperation in the field of law enforcement security within the bilateral mechanism and the framework of the SCO to safeguard peace and tranquility in the region and to enhance communication and coordination in a bid to lift the development of the SCO to a new height.

Rakhmon said the two heads of state reached important consensus on developing bilateral ties last year. Mutual political trust had been deepened and friendly cooperation had reached new progress in the past year, Rakhmon said. He noted, despite the global financial crisis, bilateral trade maintained growth momentum and pragmatic cooperation in other areas also achieved rich results in 2009. With the assistance of China, Tajikistan had made smooth progress in a number of its major infrastructure projects. Tajikistan is satisfied with the status quo of bilateral ties and thanks for China’s strong support for Tajikistan’s economic and social development. Tajikistan highly appreciates China for supporting its efforts in safeguarding state sovereignty and territorial integrity and reaffirms its adherence to the one-China policy. Tajikistan is ready to work with China to expand cooperation in infrastructure construction, make best use of preferential loans from China, enhance economic and trade cooperation at local levels and lift the level of trade ties so as to push bilateral cooperation in all areas to a new level.

Ling Jihua, Wang Huning, Dai Bingguo and other officials attended the meeting.