On the afternoon of June 3, 2003, visiting President Hu Jintao met with Kazakh Prime Minister Imangali Tasmagambetov and leaders of both houses of the parliament Oralbai Abdykarimov and Zharmakhan Tuyakbayev respectively for deep discussions on bilateral relations and the deepening of mutually beneficial cooperation.

During his meeting with Hu, Tasmagambetov briefed about Kazakhstan's current economic and social development as well as plans for the next stage. He said that Kazakhstan was adjusting its economic structure in a bid to gradually change the resources-exporting economy into a manufacturing one and accelerate agricultural reform. He said this would provide an opportunity for further economic and trade cooperation between China and Kazakhstan, adding that Kazakhstan welcomed China's participation in its economic adjustment and development.

Hu spoke highly of Kazakhstan's fast economic growth in recent years with its own advantages fully tapped. He said that The economic and trade cooperation between the two sides have developed rapidly and achieved great results. He noted that some large and medium sized cooperation programs initiated by both sides had enriched the contents of China-Kazakhstan economic and trade cooperation and further elevated the level of economic cooperation.  He expressed the hope that while actively pursuing the cooperation in the energy field, the two sides would expand economic and technological cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as well as cooperation in transportation, manufacturing and other fields. He noted he believed that China- Kazakhstan economic and trade cooperation enjoyed a broad outlook for development.

Meeting Senate (Upper House) Chairman Oralbai Abdykarimov and Mazhlis (Lower House) Chairman, Hu made positive comments on the all-round development of bilateral relations in the recent years and said that both China's National People's Congress (NPC) and Kazakhstan's parliament played important roles in the political arena of their own countries. Pointing out the exchanges between the legislative bodies of both countries were an important part of bilateral relations, Hu proposed they increase contacts and learn from each other on improving legislative activities and strengthening law monitoring. He wished the special committees and friendship groups of the legislative bodies of both countries could strengthen exchanges to prosper the all-round development of bilateral ties. Hu also briefed Abdykarimov and Tuyakbayev about China's efforts in fighting severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), stressing that China had the determination, confidence and capability to win the combat against it, while achieving the economic prosperity.

Both Abdykarimov and Tuyakbayev noted that the Kazakh side highly evaluated the overall development and consolidation of bilateral friendly cooperation. They promised that the two houses of the Kazakh parliament would make more efforts to contribute to further development of relations between the two countries. They said that members of both houses of Kazakhstan attached great importance to the practices and experience of NPC on strengthening jural construction in the recent years, hoping that the two legislative bodies would intensify exchanges to act as a major bridge and bond between the two peoples in strengthening contacts, mutual learning and common progress.