Vice premier to attend Decade of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor celebration event

Vice-Premier He Lifeng, acting as special representative of President Xi Jinping, will attend the Decade of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor celebration event in Islamabad from Sunday to Tuesday.

This year marks both the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative and the launch of CPEC.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that, as a pioneering project of the BRI, construction of the corridor has yielded remarkable outcomes over the past ten years and has become a new benchmark for China-Pakistan friendship.

China hopes that the visit will be an opportunity for both sides to jointly implement the important consensus between leaders of the two countries, renew the traditional friendship, build on past achievements and upgrade the development of CPEC, the statement said.

China expects to work with Pakistan to consolidate and deepen bilateral all-weather strategic cooperative partnership, advance the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era, and contribute to the development and prosperity of the region and beyond, the statement added.