Envoy Bauyrzhan Dosmanbetov attributes growth of local Kazakhstani community to Belt and Road Scholarship programme launched in 2016
4-MIN READ4-MINJeffie LamPublished: 8:30am, 20 May 2026Kazakhstan aims to deepen its financial services cooperation with Hong Kong, viewing it as an ideal fundraising hub to access renminbi capital through bond issuances, according to the country’s top envoy in the city.
In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Bauyrzhan Dosmanbetov, Kazakhstan’s consul general in Hong Kong, also said the Central Asian country’s community in the city had grown over the past decade to about 1,000, driven by the local government’s Belt and Road Scholarship programme.
“Kazakhstan and Hong Kong are currently building a partnership that goes far beyond simple trade – we are looking at deep institutional and technological integration,” he said, citing areas such as digital finance, artificial intelligence and sustainable infrastructure.
“We see a perfect match between Hong Kong’s capital and Kazakhstan’s digital transformation.”
Hong Kong is seeking to strengthen its ties with Central Asia as Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu prepares to embark on his first official visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in early June.
With Kazakhstan being a strong partner under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, the collaboration between Astana and Hong Kong has been scaling up.
