Ambassador Jiang Zaidong Outlines Vision for a Closer China-Pakistan Community in New Era

China and Pakistan, which have been all-weather strategic cooperative partners, are also the backbone of the international community in safeguarding fairness and justice and promoting development and prosperity, Beijing’s top diplomat in Islamabad said about the trajectory of the two countries’ vital relationship.

“We stand ready to continuously work with friends from all walks of life in Pakistan by implementing the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and Pakistani leaders as the guiding principle, building a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era as the main line, and promoting high-quality development of CPEC as the major platform, to continuously consolidate, deepen and expand China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperation, to safeguard our common interests in the changes unseen in a century, to better benefit the two peoples, and to jointly usher in a bright future of peace, security, prosperity and progress for our world,” Ambassador Jiang Zaidong wrote in an article.

At the recently held Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs, President Xi presented a systematic review of the historic achievements and valuable experience of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era, gave a profound exposition on the international environment and historical mission of China’s external work on the new journey, and made comprehensive plans for China’s external work for the present and coming periods, Ambassador Jiang wrote.

It provides the fundamental guideline and guidance for action for advancing major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. “In this significant process, we stand ready to strengthen mutual learning, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and strengthen multilateral coordination with Pakistan, to build an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era, and make new and greater contribution to building a community with a shared future for mankind,” he wrote.

“We stand ready to work with Pakistan to enrich the vivid practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind. CPEC as a pioneering project of the Belt and Road Initiative has made important contributions to Pakistan’s economic development and people’s livelihood enhancement over the past 10 years,” the Chinese envoy stated.

“At the critical moment when CPEC construction was to be improved and upgraded, President Xi Jinping met with [caretaker] Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, who was in China to attend the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. And the two leaders reached important consensuses on deepening China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperation and promoting CPEC construction.

Under the strong guidance and promotion of high-level consensuses, building CPEC into a growth, livelihood-enhancing, innovative, green and open corridor has been fully launched, the railway upgradation and highway realignment projects are accelerating, concrete plans for Pakistan’s agricultural cooperation with Xinjiang have been formed, the first batch of Pakistani dried chilli has been smoothly shipped to China, the Khunjerab Pass’s functioning all year round is being intensively prepared, the Rashakai SEZ Phase-I has been completed.

The CPEC construction has entered into a new stage of high-quality development, which injects new impetus into the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future.”