ISLAMABAD, September 28: During the past 30 years, China has achieved rapid economic growth and sustained livelihood improvement. China has been the world’s second largest economy since 2010 and created a miracle of development by “China speed”.
Ambassador of China Sun Weidong expressed these views while speaking on the occasion of 67th Anniversary of founding of People’s Republic of China. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Speaker National Assembly was the chief guest.
The ambassador further said, “We pursue peaceful development. We maintain that all countries, big or small, are all equal. We advocate the opening-up strategy of mutual benefits and win-win cooperation. We develop friendship and cooperation with all countries based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence. We have made our contribution to the world peace and development”.
He added, China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic cooperative partners. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties 65 years ago, China and Pakistan have always maintained mutual understanding, mutual trust and mutual support.
No matter how the international and regional situations have changed, our friendship remains unbreakable and even gets stronger than before. It has become a model of relations between countries.
He said, since the successful state visit of President Xi Jinping to Pakistan last year, the all-round cooperation between China and Pakistan has maintained strong momentum with substantive advancement.
As the major and pilot project of the Belt and Road Initiative, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has made significant progress. Up to now, among the 30 early harvest projects, 16 have been completed or are under construction, with investment of more than 13 billion US dollars.
These projects have created tens of thousands of job opportunities for the local people, and brought great vitality to the development of Pakistan.-DNA