DUSHANBE, September 13, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Tajikistan and China on September 13 signed 17 cooperation documents.

The documents were signed in Dushanbe in the presence of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

The leaders of the two countries signed a joint communiqué on further expansion of strategic partnership.

Besides, the sides signed a cooperation program designed for 2015-2020 and an agreement on extradition.

Under a government-to-government agreement on economic and technical cooperation signed between Tajikistan and China, a 300 million yuan grant will be awarded to Tajikistan.

Tajikistan’s Ministry of Finance and China’s Ministry of Commerce signed a frame agreement on providing a preferential loan to Tajikistan; the National Development and Reform Commission of China and Tajikistan’s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade signed a memorandum of understanding on promotion of the creation of the Silk Road Economic Belt; Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture and China’s Ministry of Agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding on establishment of the Agrarian Center and Exhibition of China’s Innovative Technologies in Tajikistan.

Tajiktransgaz (Tajik state-run natural gas distributor) and Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company Ltd, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), signed a loan agreement; Tajikistan’s savings bank, Amonatbonk, and the China Development Bank (CDB) signed a loan agreement; Tajikistan’s Agroinvestbonk and the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) signed a cooperation agreement; the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan and International Mineral Deposits Company of Chain’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), TACHEN, signed a memorandum on cooperation; the Government of Tajikistan and Huaxin Cement Co., Ltd signed an investment agreement on construction of the second and third lines of cement plants in the Bobojonghafourov and Danghara districts;  the Land Improvement and Water Management agency under the Government of Tajikistan and the XUAR Building Materials Corporation signed a memorandum on cooperation; the Academy of Sciences of the two countries signed a cooperation agreement; and the Ministry of Education of Tajikistan and the Central Office of the Confucius Institute signed an agreement on establishment of the Confucius Center in Tajikistan.