Togzhan is a graduate student from Kazakhstan at Beijing-based University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).

In 2012, at the age of 17, Togzhan came to China from her hometown Atyrau, a city in northwestern Kazakhstan on the coast of the Caspian Sea. She became a student of International Economics and Trade Management at UIBE and entered the graduate course on Business Management this September.

Togzhan has made up her mind to work in a Chinese logistics company for two years after graduation and open her own company in Kazakhstan afterward.

As a child, Togzhan had been interested in the stories about the ancient Silk Road. Now she hopes to facilitate trade between China and Kazakhstan by taking advantages of the Belt and Road initiative.

"China and Kazakhstan are both my home countries. There's China in my destiny," Togzhan told the Global Times.

Kazakhstani young people who have been studying in China have become an influential power.

According to the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan, there are currently 14,000 Kazakhstan students in China.

Dimash Kudaibergen, a 24-year-old singer from Kazakhstan, gained a huge amount of Chinese fans after participating in a singing show on Hunan TV.

The person behind Dimash was Yertay, who had studied in Northeastern University in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, for three years.

In 2009, Yertay, who worked for the state television channel of Kazakhstan, occasionally received a suggestion from a friend studying in China, encouraging Yertay to come and share his culture. Yertay took the idea as "a gift from Allah," and went to Northeastern University that year without knowing a Chinese sentence.

During his years in China, Yertay always planned to promote the culture of Kazakhstan in China.