On June 12, 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Kasymzhomart Tokaev, Kazakhstan's Senate Chairman, in Astana.

Hu pointed out that in recent years, China-Kazakhstan relations have witnessed sound and rapid development, with increasing political trust and enriched connotations of cooperation.

Hu emphasized that the two countries are good neighbors, good friends and good partners and China always attaches great importance to developing ties with Kazakhstan. China is ready to work with Kazakhstan to build up political trust, expand pragmatic cooperation in all areas and enhance mutual support on major issues of common concern so as to push bilateral strategic partnership to a new level.

Hu said the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China and the two houses of the Kazakh parliament have maintained sound cooperative relations over the years. Both sides have cooperated well with each other in promoting legislative improvement, administrative supervision, economic construction as well as external exchanges. Active participation of the two legislatures and their representatives and members is essential to the development of China-Kazakhstan relations. China supports the two legislative bodies to conduct multi-level, multi-channel and wide-ranging friendly exchanges to enrich the contents of China-Kazakhstan strategic partnership, inject new impetus into bilateral cooperation in all areas and lay a solid foundation of public support for long-standing friendship between both peoples.

Tokaev extended warm welcome for Hu’s state visit. He hailed the visit as a great success and congratulated on the enormous outcome it has achieved. He hailed the substantial progress of bilateral ties, saying both sides have made important contributions to pushing forward strategic partnership. Tokaev spoke highly of strategic significance of bilateral ties. He expressed the Kazakh parliament's full support to the government to expand relations with China, and said the parliament would like to contribute to the development of bilateral ties. As legislative exchanges are an important part of bilateral ties, the Kazakh parliament is ready to expand exchanges with the legislature of China, the National People's Congress (NPC), he added.

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