LAHORE: Chinese embassy’s Charge D Affairs Zhao Lijian on Tuesday appreciated Pak-China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCJCCI) for undertaking a successful move to bridge the communication gap between peoples of China and Pakistan.
In a meeting with PCJCCI President SM Naveed and Secretary General M Salahuddin Hanif here, he acknowledged the contribution of the joint chamber in this regard and especially applauded the initiative of publishing the first Chinese-Urdu dictionary and Chinese Language Learning Book in Pakistan.
He was of the view that platforms like PCJCCI, promoting and facilitating common people for acquiring Chinese language knowledge, were the great contributors of growth to currently growing relations between China and Pakistan. He highly acknowledged the foresightedness of PCJCCI for realising the need of exclusive Chinese publications designed to ease people of both China and Pakistan.
Briefing the Charge D Affairs about the joint chamber’s services, SM Naveed said that PCJCCI had been formed and working to identify the inherent trade and investment potential besides suggesting the ways to combat challenges/ threats to the sustained momentum of economic cooperation through collaborative efforts of both countries.
He also discussed with Zhao the relocation of labour-intensive Chinese industry to Pakistan. He said that China was moving from labour-intensive to a capital-intensive industry that would relocate to other countries.
“China’s upgrading to higher industries will create a huge space for Pakistan to enter a labor-intensive industrialisation development phase,” he said. He was confident that Pakistan could attract Chinese manufacturing sector by developing a trained workforce for industries. PCJCCI was making concerted efforts to highlight and invite labour-intensive industries of China to venture with Pakistani companies, he added.
Zhao hoped that both Pakistanis and Chinese would equally be benefited by the initiatives taken by the PCJCCI. It was notable that strategically, Pakistan and China trade promotion could act as an antidote to implement the complete philosophy of ‘Belt and Road’ initiative to be emulated in other parts of the region.
