Chinese Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission, Muhammad Lijian Zhao, has become the prime source of information on the CPEC, using Twitter to clear the air on several issues.
Responding to criticism that China is using prisoners as labour to save costs, he tweeted, ‘This is nonsense. The person spreads the rumor like this has a hidden agenda’.
When asked why the Embassy feels the need to counter the propaganda, Zhao replied: ‘just try to clarify and present the facts and true picture to the public’.
Chinese officials have been regularly meeting with the senior political leadership of all the parties and taking them into confidence.
Understanding the importance of social media and the smear campaign against China, Ambassador Zhao is vigilant and prompt to address any such thing. He has gained a good number of followers in the recent months.
The Planning Commission is, in fact, a coordinating agency among the provincial governments, ministries and other autonomous bodies but we are trying hard to fill the information vacuum, said the spokesman Asim Khan Niazi.
The CPEC is a huge project and it is immensely productive for the country, said he adding that enemies of Pakistan are funding to hurt it.
We are planning a one stop communication for the journalists and the masses, and a lot will change in this regard, he added.
#China have to spend around 3.2 times per unit of labour in "Pakistan" in #CPEC than what they spend in China. Had there been an India-China corridor labour would have costed only 1.3 times more.
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