In his interview to Gazeta.uz, Yu Hongjun said that both lines of Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline were commissioned by the end of 2010. He added that Uzbekistan will start gas supplies to China in near future.

Ambassador said that this is one of important projects between Uzbekistan and China in oil and gas sector and it will open wide perspectives for further development of bilateral cooperation.

As earlier reported, Uzbekistan will supply to China up to 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year in line with the intergovernmental agreement between two states.

On 14 December 2009, heads of state for China, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan launches a gas processing plant on the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan to open the Central-Asia-China natural gas pipeline.

At the beginning of January, the pipeline began to supply gas to Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, and from 20 January, gas from Central Asia flowed further eastward, including to Beijing and neighboring areas.

The 1,833-km pipeline starts from the border of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, traverses through central Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan and enters China at Horgos. It links to China’s second West-East natural gas pipeline.