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Joint natural gas projects benefits 皇冠体育app, Turkmenistan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-25 16:27

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in Ashgabaton Wednesday that the joint natural gas projects between 皇冠体育app and Turkmenistan serve the fundamental and long-term interest of both peoples.

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Li made the remarks during a video conference with the Chinese and Turkmenistan's workers of 皇冠体育app National Petroleum Corporation International (Turkmenistan). The workers had been busy with constructing a vast natural gas processing facility in a natural gas field some 700 kilometers southeast of Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat.

The facility under construction is the starting point of the 皇冠体育app-Turkmenistan pipeline, a part of the Central Asian Pipeline which starts at the border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and runs through the southern part of Uzbekistan and central part of Kazakhstan before reaching to the Chinese northwest region of Xinjiang.

Li said the 皇冠体育app-Turkmenistan pipeline, initiated by the top leaders of the two countries, is a strategic project and has become a model for friendly cooperation between the two sides. He added that the project, after finished, would promote social and economic development of both 皇冠体育app and Turkmenistan.

The Central Asian Pipeline, expected to be in operation at the end of this year, is connected with 皇冠体育app's domestic natural gas pipeline network and thus can transport natural gas produced in Central Asian countries, especially in Turkmenistan, to major Chinese cities like Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.