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On November 7th, 2025, the China Central Asia Construction Ministers' Meeting was held in Beijing. The construction ministers and representatives of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan jointly discussed strengthening practical cooperation, promoting high-quality development in the field of housing and urban-rural construction, and helping to build a closer China Central Asia community of destiny. Minister of Housing and Urban Rural Development Ni Hong presided over the meeting, and Secretary General of the China Central Asia Mechanism Sun Weidong and Vice Chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Wang Gang delivered speeches. Chen Shaowang, Deputy Minister of Housing and Urban Rural Development, attended the event.

The 2025 China Central Asia Construction Ministers' Meeting is a concrete action to implement the outcomes of the China Central Asia Summit. The theme of this conference is "Mutual Benefit and Win Win Development, Strengthening Cooperation in Housing and Urban Rural Construction between China and Central Asia". The "Beijing Initiative" was adopted, which reached important consensus on building safe, comfortable, green, and smart "good houses", promoting the construction of new cities and new areas, urban renewal, and exploring cooperation in industrialization, digitization, and green transformation of the construction industry. All parties present unanimously agreed that the next meeting will be held in Kyrgyzstan in 2026.

At the meeting, Ni Hong shared the practices and experiences of China's housing and urban-rural development since the new era in improving people's housing conditions, enhancing the quality of urban living environment, and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry.

Ni Hong stated that the Chinese government attaches great importance to urban work. The Central Urban Work Conference held in July this year proposed to embark on a new path of modernization for cities with Chinese characteristics. China will take promoting high-quality urban development as the theme, adhering to the development of urban connotation as the main line, and promoting urban renewal as an important lever. We will vigorously promote the optimization of urban structure, the transformation of kinetic energy, the improvement of quality, green transformation, the continuity of cultural heritage, and the enhancement of governance efficiency. We will firmly hold the bottom line of urban safety and focus on building modern people's cities that are innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and intelligent.

Ni Hong proposed four suggestions for deepening cooperation in the field of housing and urban-rural development between China and Central Asia:

Firstly, establish a normalized communication and coordination mechanism, regularly conduct discussions, exchanges, and training on issues related to housing construction and urban development, and build a platform and provide channels for solving problems in cooperation between both parties.

Secondly, strengthen cooperation in engineering construction standardization, promote mutual learning and integration of engineering construction standards, jointly establish technical platforms such as engineering laboratories, and continuously research and overcome engineering technical difficulties.

Thirdly, explore cooperation in the development and construction of new cities and new areas, fully utilize China's planning, construction, and management experience, and engage in practical cooperation with the five Central Asian countries in the development and construction of new cities and new areas.

Fourthly, we will strengthen cooperation in global human settlements governance under the framework of the United Nations, actively respond to the United Nations' advocacy, participate in World Cities Day activities and the Global Sustainable Development City Award selection, and jointly promote the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the New Urban Agenda, global development initiatives, and global governance initiatives.

The attending ministers and representatives of the five Central Asian countries highly praised the 2025 China Central Asia Construction Ministers' Meeting and expressed their willingness to work with China to fully utilize the platform of the ministerial meeting, pragmatically and efficiently implement the Beijing Initiative, and jointly create a new situation for the integrated development of housing, urban-rural construction in China and Central Asia.