When President Xi Jinping hosted the first China-Central Asia Summit in the ancient Chinese city of Xi'an in 2023, it marked a pivotal moment in relations between the world's second-largest economy and the Eurasian heartland.
In recent years, the strategic significance of Central Asia has surged, with five nations — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — assuming an increasingly important role in Eurasia's evolving geopolitical and economic landscape.
