Terming his visit to China “very successful”‚ Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday lauded the warmth and hospitality which he and the members of his delegation received at each and every place they visited in the friendly country.
Nawaz expressed these views at a banquet hosted by the governor of Guangdong, Zhu Xiaodan, in the honour of Prime Minister Nawaz and his delegation.
Later, the Pakistani delegation left for Pakistan after completing the five-day official visit.
At the airport, the Chinese deputy provincial governor, assistant foreign minister, and the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan saw the Nawaz-led team off.
During his visit, the prime minister had visited Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Nawaz said his meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing had been very successful, adding that he also held a number of meetings with Chinese companies and invited them to invest in energy‚ infrastructure development and other sectors in Pakistan.
During the meeting with the governor of Guangdong‚ both sides discussed the promotion of trade and cooperation in tourism.
Xiaodan told the prime minister about the presence of a large number of Pakistani traders in the province, adding that 60 percent of the bilateral trade was being carried out in his province. The governor‚ however, stressed the need for enhancement of the trade volume.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif‚ Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Malik Baloch‚ Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi‚ Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbass Jilani‚ Ambassador Masood Khalid and senior officials of the Chinese foreign ministry were also present.
Earlier in Beijing, Nawaz also discussed with the Chinese leadership how to address the country’s energy problem and development of infrastructure.
The two countries also signed eight memorandums of understanding and agreements, including the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor Accord.
The prime minister also held detailed meetings with the heads and chief executives of banks, financial institutes and corporate leaders.
In these meetings, Nawaz said Pakistan was faced with an acute energy shortfall and as a result the economic development was suffering.
He invited the heads and chief executives of Chinese enterprises to help Pakistan set up power plants.
He also discussed with the Chinese companies the laying of a high-speed railway network from Karachi to Peshawar.
Calling the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor “a game changer”, the prime minister said special economic zones would also be set up along the corridor that would provide immense business opportunities to the population living in surrounding areas.
At the meetings with the Chinese leadership, the prime minister said China had agreed to waive off the condition of insure cover on Chinese projects.
Nawaz also met National People’s Congress Chairman Zhang Deijang and exchanged with him views on bilateral relations and means to cement them further.
Nawaz visited Shanghai on Saturday in a high-speed train. During the journey, the prime minister held a number of meetings and talked with the senior officials of the train project management.
At the meetings arranged in the train, a number of Chinese companies showed keen interest in construction of various projects, including power plants, high-speed trains, Bhasha dam, optic fibre and motorways in Pakistan.
Pakistan will get maximum benefit after this very successful visit of China by the Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef, many major projects have been signed and with all great efforts they will be completed on time to assure the people that government has done work.
Zardari and pee pee pee had signed a deal worth over $100 billion with china. You know very well what happened to that. This is no different, unless we stand on our own, we will be used like a tissue paper (or a con..dom, if you prefer) by china or US/west.
Every ruler in the past has claimed very successful tour so it is no new thing.
What will happen to the Zerdari agreements (binding or just memos of understanding ?) he and his Govt signed earlier. Will they go with the wind or is there duplication. Who can provide answer to these questions ?
Whatever nawaz has signed are also MOUs, Zardari perhapes signed 150 MOUs with China, and those MOUs were more fundamental more basic, Nawaz signed just 10. The same fate will happen to Nawaz MOUs
We are watching you Nawaz Sharif.
Your each step is being monitored by the loyal citizens Mr NAWAZ sHARIF
be positive for God's sake and stop lying about MOU 150
Well what may ever happen in this country the Mians will remain focused on their fantasies… But to some extent we have to give them credit… As speedy trains, motorways, subways and helicopters will always help to discard the corpses of the Pakistanis dying daily !
if going to china is all you need to do to fix pakistan than problem solved lol.
Hamare Sub k dilon ki dharkan Nawaz Sharif 😛
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