by Riaz Ahmad Malik
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has made positive remarks on China-Pakistan relations and the CPEC on various occasions recently which fully demonstrates the emphasis the Pakistani side attaches to China-Pakistan all-weather friendship and all-round cooperation. We highly appreciate it.
This was stated by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin during the regular media briefing in reply to a question that while inaugurating the mass transit bus project , Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that China has greatly contributed to strengthening Pakistan’s economy and expressed gratitude to President Xi Jinping for the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor?(CPEC).
The spokesperson added that CPEC is an important pilot project under the BRI. Since its launch, the project has made important contributions to Pakistan’s economic development and livelihood improvement, and won wide acclaim and recognition from all sectors. China stands ready to work together with Pakistan to ensure the continued progress in programs under construction and the smooth operation of completed ones, so as to unleash CPEC’s positive effect on promoting growth and improving people’s wellbeing and build it into a demonstration project of high-quality BRI development.
