On June 10, 2017, President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing after concluding his state visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan and attendance at the 17th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as well as the opening ceremony of Astana Expo 2017.

Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee Wang Huning, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee Li Zhanshu, State Councilor Yang Jiechi and other delegation members arrived by the same plane.

On the morning of June 10 local time, upon Xi Jinping's departure for China from Astana, First Deputy Prime Minister Askar Uzakbaiuly Mamin of Kazakhstan and others saw him off at the airport.