Major outcomes of China’s Premier Li Qiang's visit official visit to Pakistan

From October 14 to 16, 2024, China’s Premier Li Qiang traveled to Pakistan to attend the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and paid an official visit to Pakistan. This is the second visit of China’s Premier of the State Council to Pakistan in 11 years and marks an exchange of visits at the head-of-government level between the two countries within a year. Here are the major outcomes of the visit:

First, consolidating all-weather friendship between China and Pakistan. Both sides agreed to continue firmly supporting each other’s core interests, enhance high-level exchanges, jointly strive for respective modernization and national rejuvenation, and speed up the building of a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era.

Second, deepening practical cooperation in various fields. Both sides agreed to foster synergy of development strategies, jointly upgrade China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), accelerate the building of railway, highway, port and other major projects, step up the integrated development of industries, and deepen practical cooperation in such areas as agriculture, minerals, information technology, energy, economic exchange and trade, and people-to-people and cultural exchange so as to benefit more people in the two countries through bilateral cooperation.

Third, ensuring a safe environment for cooperation. Both sides reaffirmed their zero-tolerance approach against terrorism and readiness to increase bilateral and multilateral counterterrorism cooperation, form a synergy on counterterrorism regionally and internationally and jointly keep the region peaceful and stable.