Visiting Chinese senior party official Li Changchun on Wednesday in Astana exchanged views with Kazakh Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov on the all-round development and promotion of mutually beneficial cooperation.

Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said China and Kazakhstan are mutually complementary in economy and trade and have broad prospects of further development.

As long as both sides sincerely implement the consensus reached between the two heads of state and relevant agreements signed and give full play to the mechanism of the cooperation committee of the two nations, the mutually beneficial cooperation would make new progress, Li said.

Noting that China is Kazakhstan's biggest trade partner, Akhmetov said the successful economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has contributed to Kazakhstan's economic and social development and laid a solid foundation for all-round development of bilateral ties.

He also expressed the hope that both sides could further promote bilateral cooperation in energy and hi-tech sectors and iron ore trade.

Li, who arrived in Alma-ata on Sunday for an official goodwill visit to the country, also had talks on Tuesday with Zharmakhan Tuyakbayev, speaker of the lower house of the Kazakh parliament and vice president of the Otan Party.

Speaking highly of the Sino-Kazakh relations, Li stressed that both sides are facing a historic opportunity to promote bilateral ties to a higher level, as some bilateral issues left over by history have been solved and created a pre-condition for improving bilateral ties.

The Sino-Kazakh good-neighborly treaty of friendship and cooperation signed in 2002 has established a legal basis for bilateral ties, while cooperation in various sectors have paved the way for all-round development of bilateral ties, Li added.

He expressed the hope that both sides could join hands to usher in a new era for the good-neighborly bilateral ties and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Tuyakbayev said the Kazakh government is satisfied with the rapid development of the bilateral ties and is willing to draw on China's precious experiences in economic reform, construction and social development and to expand mutually beneficial cooperation for common prosperity.

Both sides also positively evaluated the bilateral parliamentary and party exchanges.

Li will leave Kazakhstan for Ukraine on Wednesday evening, the second leg of his four-nation tour that will also take him to Greece and France.