BEIJING: Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived then on Thursday on a four-day sanctioned visit during which he’ll join other world leaders attending the opening form of the Beijing Winter Olympics listed to be held on Friday ( moment).
Accompanied by a high- position delegation, including civil press members, the high minister will also meet the Chinese leadership.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf, Adviser on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Khalid Mansoor are part of the delegation.
On his appearance at Beijing Capital International Airport, the high minister was entered by Assistant Foreign Minister of China Wu Jianghao. Pakistan’s Ambassador in Beijing Moeenul Haq and elderly delegacy officers were also present.
Besides attending the form of Beijing Winter Olympics, PM Khan will also meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. During the meeting, they will bandy the ways of farther promoting bilateral trade and profitable cooperation, particularly under the CPEC frame, besides indigenous and transnational affairs.
Besides virtual relations with prominent Chinese business leaders, top think tanks, intellectualists and media, other bilateral meetings are also on the high minister’s docket of the visit.
The government hopes that PM Khan’s visit will reinvigorate the CPEC design. “ Twenty-one different sectors have been linked to be bandied with the Chinese leadership,” Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry had told Dawn on Wednesday after attending a series of meetings chaired by Imran Khan at the Prime Minister House.
The sectors to be bandied during the PM’s visit relate to special profitable zones created under CPEC, trade, information technology, husbandry and the relocation of massive Chinese diligence to Pakistan.
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This is the high minister’s fourth trip to China as he paid the last visit in October 2019. Prior to his visit, Prime Minister Khan ordered junking of red vid hindering the Chinese investment in Pakistan, besides doing down with 37 regulations to insure one-window operation for foreign investors.
Pakistan and China supported each other in their fight against the Covid-19 epidemic and pushed forward high- quality development of CPEC. Beijing had invested over$ 25 billion in Pakistan on CPEC systems generating jobs, producing 5500MW of electricity and structure over 500 km of roads.
Pakistan-China cooperation against the Covid-19 epidemic has remained exemplary. President Dr Arif Alvi visited China in March 2020 to express solidarity with the Chinese people.
Pakistan is one of the foremost sympathizers and actors of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As BRI’s flagship design, CPEC complements the Pakistan government’s vision of profitable sovereignty.
China’snon-financial direct investment in countries under the BRI reached$17.99 bn from January to November 2021, up12.7 per cent time-on- time despite the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic and caliginous global investment terrain.
CPEC is a transformational design. Among 70 early- crop systems, 46 have been launched or completed with a total investment of$25.4 bn, creating original jobs.
