DUSHANBE, April 20, 2015, Asia-Plus -- On Monday April 20, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon received Mr. Zhang Chunxian, the China Communist Party Secretary for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

According to the Tajik president’s official website, the two sides discussed a broad range of issues related to cooperation between Tajikistan and  China’s XUAR.

In the course of the talks, Mr. Zhang reportedly informed Tajik president of activities of Tajik-Chinese joint ventures that are successfully operating in the south and in the north of Tajikistan.

They also discussed development of a new program of cooperation between Tajikistan in XUAR in the coming years.

Rahmon and Zhang highly appraised the work of the Kulma border crossing and discussed reconstruction of the Khorog-Kulma highway in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), the source said.

Zhang Chunxian is a Chinese politician and a current member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China.  Since 2010 he has served as the Communist Party Secretary for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.  From 2005 to 2010 he was the Party Secretary of Hunan Province.