Sept 5-8 — Liu Haixing, minister of the International Department of the CPC
Central Committee, led a party delegation to Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. In
Uzbekistan he met President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and leaders of the Senate,
legislature and ruling party; in Azerbaijan he met Prime Minister Ali Asadov and
New Azerbaijan Party deputy chairman Bahram Budagov. He participated in a
Central Asia session on Xi Jinping Thought, a China–Central Asia party dialogue,
and attended the opening of a China Study Center and China Book House at the
Azerbaijani Presidential Administrative Academy. The visits promoted Xi Jinping
Thought and involved exchanges on issues of mutual concern.
