President Xi Jinping's state visit to Kazakhstan encouraged Chinese startup companies to invest in the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese entrepreneur said.

As tourists from around the world awaited on Friday night the opening of Astana Expo 2017, with the theme of Energy of the Future, they found the yellow bicycles from China in the streets of Kazakhstan's capital city.

Shan Shan, a Chinese student at Nazarbayev University, said he was a user of Ofo bikes when he studied in China, and used a bicycle for the last kilometer of his way to class when coming out of the subway.