On June 11, 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao left the Uzbek capital of Tashkent for Kazakhstan after paying a state visit to Uzbekistan.

Hu arrived in Tashkent on June 9 for a state visit to Uzbekistan and the 10th Meeting of the Council of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Heads of States.

During his stay in Tashkent, Hu held talks with his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov, exchanging broad and in-depth views on bilateral ties as well as international and regional issues of common concern and reaching a lot of new consensus. The two heads of state also signed a joint statement on comprehensively deepening and developing friendly and cooperative partnership between the two countries.