President Xi Jinping (left) and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov attend a welcome ceremony before their talk on Tuesday in Ashkhabad, capital of Turkmenistan. Xi started his Central Asia tour on Tuesday. He will also pay state visits to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and then attend the Leaders' Summit of G20 in St. Petersburg and the Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of SCO in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Huang Jingwen / Xinhua