Pak, China to cement cooperation in various fields
During a meeting between Pakistan’s ambassador to China Moin ul Haque and Zhang Xu, Vice-Minister of Culture and Tourism at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, both agreed to enhance cooperation in the fields of tourism and culture by organizing different festivals. They called for institutionalizing new mechanisms for coordinated and wide-ranging development of ties in these fields. Zhang Xu said that China will cooperate with Pakistan to organize these events on the eve of 70th anniversary of Pakistan China diplomatic relations.
Pakistan, China agree to boost tourism coop
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and China have agreed to organize cultural and tourism activities, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
According to Gwadar Pro, Pakistani Ambassador Moin ul Haque held a meeting with Zhang Xu, Vice-Minister of Culture and Tourism at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, in Beijing.
During the meeting, the two sides reviewed the on-going cooperation in the fields of culture, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges and vowed to further deepen their bilateral engagements in the future.
Expressing satisfaction over the steady development of bilateral cultural ties, both the sides noted that the all-weather friendship between Pakistan and China provided a strong foundation for further enhancing bilateral engagements in domains of culture, media cooperation, and heritage protection.
They agreed that both the countries should make optimum use of existing linkages to deepen bilateral cultural exchanges and also institutionalize new mechanisms for coordinated and wide-ranging development of ties in relevant fields.
In this regard, the expansion of bilateral tourism could become a new area of cooperation between Pakistan and China.
Zhang Xu said that China is willing to work with Pakistan to successfully organize cultural and tourism activities for the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations under the background of the COVID-19 epidemic, further implement the bilateral cultural and tourism cooperation agreement, and give full play to the role of Pakistan’s Chinese Cultural Center. He further said that the all-weather strategic partnership between China and Pakistan has maintained a high level of development and has become a model for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
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