Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong calls on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
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ISLAMABAD, JUN 3 /DNA/ – Jiang Zaidong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Pakistan, called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif at the Prime Minister’s House today.
Adviser to the Prime Minister Dr. Syed Tauqir Shah, SAPM Syed Tariq Fatemi and Foreign Secretary Amb. Amna Baloch was also present.
The Prime Minister conveyed his warm regards and best wishes to President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang and fondly recalled his most productive and substantive meetings with the Chinese leadership during his recent visit to China.
While conveying his firm resolve to ensure the further strengthening of Pakistan-China All Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to immediately initiate necessary actions for follow-up on the important decisions taken during his visit to China.
He particularly stressed the need to expand cooperation in key areas under CPEC 2.0, particularly agriculture, IT, industries, including SEZs, and mines & minerals.
The Prime Minister further stressed the need to ensure timely follow-up of the various MoUs signed between Pakistani and Chinese companies at the B2B Investment Conference, held in Hangzhou, during his visit.
The Prime Minister appreciated the Chinese Ambassador’s efforts to make the visit successful, in every aspect, while observing that it was now incumbent upon the two sides to work together to deliver on the decisions taken by the leadership of the two countries.
Other issues discussed during the meeting included the fast-tracking of the KKH realignment project, expanding security, counter-terrorism and defence cooperation, as well as economic and financial support. The evolving regional situation and international developments were also discussed.
Amb. Jiang Zaidong thanked the Prime Minister for receiving him and congratulated him on Eid al-Adha, as well as on his successful visit to China from May 23-26. He assured the Prime Minister that China remained committed to strengthening its iron-clad brotherhood with Pakistan and expanding cooperation across all spheres.
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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.…
