On May 17, 2023, under the framework of Kazakh President Tokayev's state visit to China, China and Kazakhstan signed the Agreement on Mutual Visa Exemption between the governments of Kazakhstan and China in Xi 'an, which is scheduled to come into force on November 10, 2023. According to the Agreement, Chinese citizens holding official ordinary passports, ordinary passports and travel certificates, and Kazakh citizens holding ordinary passports and return certificates, entering, leaving or transiting through the other party for personal affairs, business activities (including negotiation, signing, provision of consulting services and other business activities), tourism, medical treatment, international transport and transit purposes, A single stay of no more than 30 days from the date of entry, and a cumulative stay of no more than 90 days per 180 days, visa exemption. It is reported that with the official entry into force of the mutual visa waiver agreement between China and Kazakhstan, the flow of inbound and outbound people will increase significantly, and it is estimated that the number of inbound Kazakh nationals will increase from 300 to 1000-1500 people per day. Yang Shu believes that the entry into force of the mutual visa exemption agreement between China and Kazakhstan is undoubtedly good for the economic and trade exchanges between the two countries. He explained: "In addition to government economic and trade projects, there are many commercial activities between private individuals and companies between China and Kazakhstan. Although the total volume of private trade may not be very large, the number of relevant mobile people is large. It can be said that visa between the two countries was a big problem in the past. For example, individual visas between the two countries were suspended for several months for some reason. So it has a big impact on trade activity. For example, many Chinese and Kazakh individual businessmen purchase goods from China, are small business shipments are not large, and need to return many times, in this case, visa is a big problem. In particular, Kazakhstan's "visa return number" acceptance system takes a long time and has a very large impact. After the entry into force of the visa waiver agreement, if the grassroots can earnestly implement it and do not set up some temporary obstacles in the middle, it will help increase economic and trade activities between the two countries, in particular, it will have a positive significance to boost private business activities."

Since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Kazakhstan 30 years ago, bilateral relations have developed steadily and gradually upgraded to a permanent comprehensive strategic partnership. Kazakhstan is also the birthplace of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Over the past decade, the cooperation mechanism between China and Central Asian countries has been continuously deepened, mutual friendly cooperation has been increasingly deepened, and economic and trade cooperation has achieved outstanding results. According to Kazakh Prime Minister Smyrov at the opening ceremony of the 6th China International Import Expo, China is Kazakhstan's largest trading partner. Last year, the trade volume between the two countries hit a new record, and in the first nine months of this year, the trade volume between the two countries also recorded significant growth, and it is believed that the target of 40 billion US dollars will be achieved in the next few years. In addition, Central Asia's trade with China is also growing rapidly, exceeding $70 billion last year (of which Kazakhstan accounted for 45 percent), and all the necessary conditions are in place to reach $100 billion by 2030. Now, China and Kazakhstan have implemented the policy of mutual visa exemption. Considering that Kazakhstan is a key country in Central Asia and Central Asian countries are important participants in the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt, can we predict that the mutual visa exemption between China and Kazakhstan will have a driving effect on other Central Asian countries? To this, Yang Shu gave a relatively conservative answer. "The visa-free policy is a mutually beneficial thing for both countries, not a unilateral profit," he said. Whether the visa-free Kazakhstan and China will have a driving effect on other Central Asian countries remains to be seen. At present, Uzbekistan and China implemented the visa-free policy earlier than Kazakhstan. And Kyrgyzstan may not react quickly." On the afternoon of November 4, Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Kazakh Prime Minister Smyrov, who is here to attend the sixth China International Import Expo, in Shanghai, saying that since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Kazakhstan, bilateral relations have withstood the test of changes in the international situation and constantly reached a new level. China is willing to work with Kazakhstan to continue high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and jointly push for new achievements in the China-Central Asia mechanism and the SCO cooperation. Kazakhstan is willing to work with China to promote the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, deepen cooperation between China and Central Asia mechanism and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and jointly build a Kazakhmy-China community of shared future.