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BEIJING: Pak-China international cooperation yielded fruitful result in 2020, says a White Paper issued here.
According to Gwadar Pro, the State Council Information Office of China published a White Paper on “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era”.
The White Paper includes multi-field international cooperation and frequently mentions Pak-China cooperation in 2020. The paper summarizes China’s recent engagement in providing development assistance and lays out China’s strategy and areas of future development assistance. The respects which are also closely concerned by Pakistan, such as debt relief, poverty reduction, infrastructure improvement, energy transformation, and food crisis alleviation, were emphasized in the paper. As pet the White Paper, in 2020, China has continued a steady increase in the scale of its international development cooperation, giving high priority to the least developed countries in Asia and Africa and developing countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. China has held over 4,000 training sessions for officials from participating countries BRI. For example, on the conference of Pakistan’s vision of a new Pakistan, participants of the programs discussed and planned jointly on ways to link CPEC with regional and national initiatives. In terms of infrastructure, China supports BRI participants in infrastructure connectivity projects to revive the ancient Silk Road. To support CPEC and promote overland trade between the two countries, China participated in the upgrading and expansion of the Peshawar-Karachi Motorway and the Karakoram Highway. To meet the increasing needs of air transport, China has assisted Pakistan in upgrading and expanding our airports, thereby improving operational capacity and safety, increasing the passenger and cargo throughput, promoting local tourism, facilitating cross-border passenger and trade flow, and bringing more opportunities for their integration with the BRI Initiative.
