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China and Pakistan on Sunday promised to deepen their pragmatic
cooperation in various fields during a meeting between Pakistani Prime
Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang
Yang.
Wang Yang is in Pakistan to attend activities marking the 70th
anniversary of Pakistan's independence at the invitation of the
Pakistani government.
Noting that China and Pakistan are "iron friends" and all-weather
partners of strategic cooperation who always understand and support each
other, Wang said Chinese President Xi Jinping's successful visit to
Pakistan in 2015 has ushered in a new chapter of the relations between
the two countries.
China would like to join hands with Pakistan to well implement the
important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and
ensure that more fruitful results will be achieved in bilateral
cooperation, he said.
With regard to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which is a
flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative, Wang expressed the
hope that the two countries strengthen coordination and make good plan
and design from a long-term and top-level perspective.
Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative refers to the
Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, aiming
at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with
Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes of Silk Road.
While hailing fruitful cooperation in various economic fields over
the past years, especially in the CPEC construction, Wang suggested that
in the near future, the two countries put emphasis on ensuring early
harvests in the CPEC project.
Based on the principle of jointly building through consultation to
meet the interests of both sides, China and Pakistan should work
together to further accelerate the construction of Gwadar Port, Wang
said.
Furthermore, the two sides should push forward energy cooperation in
the fields of thermal power, Hydropower, solar energy and clean energy,
implement infrastructure cooperation projects such as highways,
railways, urban rail facilities, deepen cooperation in industrial parks
and strengthen personnel training, the Chinese vice premier said.
China and Pakistan should further tap the potential in bilateral
economic and trade cooperation, maintain the growing momentum in
bilateral trade so as to promote trade balance, he said.
The two sides should also boost cooperation in the fields such as
education, science and technology, culture, health, youth and media in a
bid to consolidate the social basis of the China-Pakistan friendship,
Wang said.
For his part, Abbasi said Pakistan and China are brothers and the bilateral relations have withstood the test of time.
Pakistan has witnessed the sustainable growth in its economy in
recent years and China has played an important role in it, he said.
Pakistan totally agrees with China's proposal to push forward the
pragmatic cooperation between the two sides and is willing to work
together with China to continue to press ahead wth the CPEC project,
expand bilateral trade, deepen and broaden pragmatic cooperation in all
fields, Abbasi said.
After their meeting, Wang and Abbasi attended the completion and
inauguration ceremony of important cooperation projects between the two
countries and the signing ceremony of bilateral cooperation documents.
