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BEIJING, Dec 23 (APP):Ambassador Khalil Hashmi, Pakistan’s Ambassador to China held individual meetings with Pakistan’s Honorary Investment Counsellors (HICs) in China to strengthen coordination and set priorities for the year ahead.
The meeting was attended by Ms. Ma Xiaoli, representing Yuan Jianming, Zhang Baozhong, Wang Zihai and Jian Peng. Besides individual meetings, the Ambassador also held a collective working luncheon with the HICs.
Ambassador Hashmi appreciated the HICs’ sustained efforts across a wide geographic spread, from Hong Kong-Macao-Greater Bay Area, a region known for innovation in science and technology, Xinjiang, a gateway to Pakistan, Shandong, a major industrial base and Henan, an emerging agriculture hub. He underscored HICs’ important role in advancing trade, investment and people-to-people linkages.
He encouraged them to synergize their efforts with Pakistan’s national development priorities and mobilize Chinese investments in export-oriented sectors of Pakistan.
Highlighting progress made in the past two years to mobilize investment in priority sectors, the Ambassador briefed them on the context of identifying 21 priority sectors, channeling investments in these sectors through joint ventures to boost productive capacities and integrating investments with human capital development.
He expressed satisfaction over the unprecedented results achieved from the two B2B Investment Conferences held in Shenzhen and Beijing and six sectoral investment roadshows held since last year which cumulatively have yielded signing of over 300 MoUs and 25 Joint Ventures worth $11 billion so far. He shared with them the active follow up mechanism underway in Pakistan at high level to provide facilitation in implanting the MoUs.
The Ambassador advised HICs to actively pursue implementation of MoUs falling within their respective jurisdictions to translate commitments into tangible outcomes, CEN reported.
The HICs welcomed the initiative to convene focused annual review by the Ambassador, marking the beginning of an institutionalized engagement with the HICs. They shared their plans for 2026 and expressed resolve to lend their full support to the Embassy’s economic diplomacy agenda while boosting bilateral cooperation in these mutually beneficial areas.