Lahore – Acting Consul General of China in Lahore Peng Zhengwu in a interview on Wednesday said that during the past years, Pakistan and China have enjoyed stable and excellent relationship.
“We have supported each other in development, prosperity and international relations as China is growing stronger, we want to help Pakistan to be stronger as well”, he added.
CPEC, is an essential part of BRI which has been built for years and received lots of appreciation, he said. Now the backbone of a modern industrial Pakistan has grown, which includes large scale energy, transportation, ports, communication projects, he added.
The Consul General said: “Next phase of CPEC will be some upper level projects to build the fresh projects in the country, with educational, environmental, agricultural and SEZ cooperation in sight.”
“There is no reason to doubt the progress of the CPEC. Just like the building of a metro, sometimes the works are done underground and not so easily visible. CPEC has entered a stable developing period.”
He further said:”Chinese President Xi Jinping has said, only the wearer of the shoes knows whether they fit the feet or not. Nobody else in the world knows better about our history and friendship than the Chinese and Pakistani people. We struggled for today’s life and we deserve it. China advocates the building of a human community with shared future, in which China and Pakistan relationship could be the model. We sincerely hope that more and more countries can join us in the just cause for the peace, development and prosperity of our future.”
Pakistan is a great, important and familiar country to me, he said. The Consul General said that he visited Pakistan in 2007 for the first time and 6 years later he visited Pakistan for the second time as a Press officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and witnessed the launching of CPEC by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Pakistani leaders in Islamabad. In 2018,he was posted to the Chinese Consulate General in Lahore to serve the CPEC and our bilateral relations, he stated.
It seems that he was already bonded to Pakistan and CPEC many years ago. So, sometimes life is a magic, he added.
