Welcoming the guest, who is in the Turkmen capital on a working visit, the president praised the "dynamic development of Turkmen-Chinese relations", the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports with reference to the press service of the head of state.

"Year by year, the scope of inter-state partnership in various fields of economy is growing," Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said. According to the president, "very soon up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas will come to China from Turkmenistan via the transnational gas pipeline, which would further strengthen the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries."