Ambassador Jiang Zaidong held talks with Pakistani friends on implementing the consensus reached by the two countries’ high-level official
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On February 19, Ambassador Jiang Zaidong held a discussion with Zafar, former special assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and other representatives of friends from the government, political parties, think tanks, and media on the implementation of the important consensus reached by the leaders of China and Pakistan.
Jiang Zaidong said that in the past year, China and Pakistan have maintained close high-level exchanges. President Xi Jinping held talks and meetings with President Zardari and Prime Minister Shabaz and reached important consensus, which pointed out the direction and injected strong impetus for promoting China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperation under the new situation. China is willing to work with Pakistan to implement it well, deepen high-level strategic cooperation, practical cooperation, security cooperation, people’s livelihood cooperation and international cooperation, and transform high-level consensus into vivid practice and rich results of bilateral cooperation.
Pakistani friends spoke highly of President Zardari’s successful visit to China, thanked China for its long-term strong support for Pakistan’s economic and social development, and looked forward to strengthening practical cooperation and cultural exchanges with China and accelerating the building of a closer Pakistan-China community with a shared future in the new era.
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
