On September 2, 2024, Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong met with Ambassador of Kazakhstan to China Nuryshev Shakhrat at the latter's request. The two sides had an exchange of views on China-Kazakhstan relations, high-level exchanges, and international cooperation, among others.

Sun Weidong said that President Xi Jinping's successful state visit to Kazakhstan in July this year has become a new milestone in the history of the development of China-Kazakhstan relations and charted a new course for the development of China-Kazakhstan permanent comprehensive strategic partnership. Both sides should earnestly deliver on the common understandings reached between the two heads of state and translate them into concrete cooperation results, so as to inject new momentum into the development of bilateral relations. Not long ago, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was successfully held, making comprehensive arrangements for further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization. He expressed the belief that China's high-quality development and high-standard opening up will bring more new development opportunities for developing countries, including Kazakhstan.

Nuryshev Shakhrat said that Kazakhstan is ready to work with China to follow the guidance of the common understandings reached by the two heads of state, strengthen the synergy of development strategies, enhance high-level exchanges, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, and continuously bring Kazakhstan-China relations to new heights.