Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday (September 4, 2025) met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing and the 2 sides reaffirmed their resolve to additional strengthen their iron-clad, all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.
During the assembly, the 2 sides additionally agreed to proceed working closely on the subsequent section of upgraded China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC 2.0), which incorporates 5 new corridors, state-run Radio Pakistan reported.
“During their warm and friendly meeting, the two leaders expressed their satisfaction at the positive trajectory of Pakistan-China relations,” it stated.
Mr. Sharif expressed his “deepest gratitude to the Chinese leadership and nation for their unflinching support to Pakistan’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and socio-economic development,” it stated.
Lauding China’s spectacular transformation below President Xi Jinping’s visionary management, Mr. Sharif stated that Pakistan needed to emulate China’s successes and construct a stronger and nearer Pakistan-China neighborhood with a shared future.
Mr. Sharif highlighted the numerous contribution of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – a flagship undertaking of Mr. Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – in Pakistan’s socio-economic growth up to now decade, and careworn the necessity for early implementation of the Main Line-1 railway undertaking and Karakorum Highway realignment and operationalisation of the Gwadar Port.
Emphasising the huge potential for B2B cooperation and funding, the Prime Minister briefed the Chinese Premier on the B2B Investment Conference held earlier within the day, the place greater than 300 Pakistani and 500 Chinese corporations have been in attendance.
He recognized agriculture, mines and minerals, textile, industrial sector and IT as precedence areas for mutually helpful financial collaboration.
Mr. Sharif reiterated Pakistan’s assist for President Xi’s landmark initiatives to strengthen multilateralism, together with the Global Governance Initiative, Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, and Global Civilisation Initiative.
Both leaders additionally witnessed the signing of Memorandums of Understanding and agreements between the 2 international locations with regard to cooperation within the growth of CPEC 2.0, science and expertise, IT, media, agriculture and different fields.
Mr. Sharif arrived in China on Saturday (August 30, 2025) for a six-day go to throughout which he participated within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, and attended a grand parade of the Chinese military right here on Wednesday (September 3, 2025) to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
