Amidst a drive for investment, PM Shehbaz travels to China.
According to a Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announcement, “PM Shehbaz Sharif has arrived in Shenzhen, China on an official visit.” Vice Mayor Luo Huanghao of Shenzhen, China, greeted him upon his arrival.
The prime minister is on his first official visit to China since taking office, and he is being accompanied by senior Cabinet ministers, deputy prime minister, and foreign minister Muhammad Ishwar Dar.
On the Premier’s formal tour to China, Shenzhen is the first place he will go.
The leader of Guangdong Province, the Shenzhen Municipal Government, as well as prominent Chinese businesses in the high-tech and innovative industries, will be among the people the Prime Minister and his delegation encounter during their two days in Shenzhen.
As part of his mission to encourage, lead, and support business cooperation between the business communities in the two nations, the Prime Minister will also open the Pakistan-China Business Conference.
In order to collaborate with their powerful Chinese counterparts, a group of prominent Pakistani businessmen will attend the conference.
Shenzhen is the center of China’s businesses and corporations focused on innovation, technology, and research.
Promoting economic cooperation in the fields of information and communication technology, high-tech development, and export-oriented innovation-led advanced technologies is the goal of the visit to Shenzhen.
“I’m going to China to elevate our bilateral relations”
Prior to leaving on his journey, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif conveyed his expectation that his five-day visit to China will discuss government-to-government initiatives, business-to-business collaboration, and the second phase of the CPEC, raising the bar for the two countries’ relationship.
In an address that was broadcast on television, the prime minister declared that they will engage in serious and persistent negotiations with the Chinese leadership on a range of topics, with the backing of ministries, officials, and specialists.
He stated that both parties would sign accords and discuss cooperation in a number of areas, including mining and minerals, agriculture, industrialization, Special Economic Zones, infrastructure, youth skill training, vocational training, and agriculture. Additionally on the program is a debate of how to connect the Silk Road through sea and road routes.
Along with this, he was grateful for China’s unwavering support of Pakistan during all difficult periods, including earthquakes, wars, and calamities.
Speaking highly of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who not only led the country’s efforts to put an end to wars and create peace but also grew China into the world’s second-biggest military and economic force, the prime minister praised his dynamic and visionary leadership.
Shehbaz Sharif also expressed gratitude to China for aiding Kashmiris without any ambiguity and persistently advocating for the independence of their homeland.
Pakistan similarly backed Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity, including the South China Sea, the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI), Hong Kong, Taiwan, which Pakistan regards as an important part of China, and the one-country, two systems theory.