Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived Thursday for a visit to Kazakhstan, his second to the Central Asian country since he took office in March 2013, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Chinese President is scheduled to discuss during the visit his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev ways to strengthen bilateral relations and joint cooperation between the two countries He paid his first visit to Kazakhstan in September 2013 and it was in this country that he raised the initiative of building the Silk Road Economic Belt.