The consensus was reached on Wednesday as State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met respectively with his counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in Xi an, Shaanxi province.
More than 2,000 years ago, an emissary from China's Han Dynasty traveled westward on a mission of peace and opened an overland route linking the East and the West. Spanning thousands of miles and years, the ancient Silk Road, with its longest part lying across the territory of Central Asia, has embodied the spirit of cooperation, mutual learning and mutual benefit.