The China-Central Asia Trade Facilitation Cooperation Platform was officially inaugurated in Nanjing on August 5.

This platform follows an important consensus reached among heads of state at the second China-Central Asia Summit held in June in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Attendees at the inauguration ceremony included Xin Changxing, Secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, Jiangsu Governor Xu Kunlin, Yuan Xiaoming, a member of the CPC Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce and Assistant Minister, and Sun Weidong, Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the China-Central Asia Mechanism.

Located in the city's Xuanwu District, the platform features a central exhibition hall, national pavilions for the five Central Asian countries, a product display hall, and offices for foreign enterprises and trade organizations.

Situating at the intersection of the Belt and Road Initiative, Jiangsu has played a key role in advancing the trade routes. In 2024, the province established the Jiangsu Central Asia Center through SOHO Holdings Group, creating a national-level economic and trade cooperation platform with the Central Asian region.

Trade between Jiangsu and the five Central Asian countries reached $4.41 billion in 2024, marking a year-on-year increase of 32.7%, with continued growth in the first half of 2025. Among newly launched investment projects in these countries, Jiangsu’s agreed investment amount grew 19-fold year-on-year in 2024 and increased a further 6.9-fold in the first half of this year.

In addition, universities in Jiangsu enrolled more than 6,000 students from Central Asia from 2021 to 2024.

The coastal province will continue to promote China–Central Asia cooperation and accelerate the development of New Eurasian Land Bridge, an international passageway linking the Pacific and the Atlantic, said Governor Xu.