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China Lauds President Alvi's Remarks About CPEC, Its Importance For Pak-China Development, Regional Connectivity
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published October 21, 2020 | 03:30 PM
BEIJING, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Oct, 2020 ) ::China on Wednesday lauded President Dr. Arif Alvi's remarks about the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and terming it as a visionary pilot project of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which not only served to promote socio economic development of Pakistan and China but also aimed to enhance regional connectivity and shared prosperity.
"We have noted these reports and we commend President Alvi's comments on the CPEC," Chinese Foreign Ministry's Spokesperson, Zhao Lijian said during his regular briefing held here.
"As President Dr Arif Alvi said the visionary CPEC as important pilot project of the BRI not only serves to promote China and Pakistan's socio economic development but also aims to enhance regional connectivity and share prosperity," he added.
He said, since its launch tangible outcomes in areas like energy, transportation infrastructure and ports had been achieved making concrete contributions to Pakistan's national development.
Zhao Lijian remarked that both Pakistan and China supported exploring possibility of opening the corridor to third parties based on consensus through consultation.
"If we look at Gwadar port as an example nearly 20,000 tonnes of commodities such as wheat, sugar and fertilizers have been transferred through the port to Afghanistan creating almost a 1000 temporary jobs," he added.
He said that China firmly supported the development of CPEC and stood ready to work with Pakistan to fully implement the consensus reached between the two leaders, focus on cooperation, social development, livelihood, industry and agriculture while advancing current projects to turn CPEC into a demonstration programme for high quality development of the BRI and bring more benefits to the two peoples.
In an interview, President Alvi had said that he was optimistic about the future of Pakistan. As a result of CPEC projects, Pakistan was going to emerge as international geo strategic Economic hub.
He said, the CPEC also created favourable conditions for realizing connectivity between China, Pakistan and central Asian countries and Pakistan would further elevate cooperation with China various areas and accelerate high quality development CPEC.
In a response to a question, he contradicted remarks of the US Secretary of State about influence of China's infrastructure deals from Laos to Montenegro to Pakistan.
He said that for some US politicians, attacking China was a check-list they need to do every day. "This is so true for Pompeo." Zhao Lijian said that China's relationship with Laos, Pakistan and Montenegro was a traditional friendship and the US Secretary of State Pompeo did not need to waste his breath on sowing discord between us.
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