Pakistan to host first Pak-China Pharmaceutical Investment Conference
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Pakistan is set to host its first Pak-China Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Investment Conference from July 16 to 19 in Karachi, as efforts intensify to attract Chinese investment into the country’s pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors.
Speaking on the preparations for the event, Jamil Qureshi, Federal Secretary of the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), said more than 50 companies have registered through the official conference portal, while several large-scale bankable investment projects have been prepared for presentation to potential investors. He noted that leading Chinese pharmaceutical companies, medical instrument manufacturers, and healthcare firms are expected to participate in the event.
The conference will focus on key subsectors including active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), vaccines, biologics, medical devices, clinical research, and allied pharmaceutical manufacturing industries.
Qureshi said the initiative reflects a broader effort to transform Pakistan’s pharmaceutical and healthcare landscape through international investment and industrial collaboration. “The objective is to move from dialogue to deployment, from memorandums of understanding to joint ventures, and from investment intent to tangible industrial capacity,” he said.
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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.…
