PCJCCI gets preferential status by Chinese Embassy

LAHORE, Jun 10 (APP):Pak-China Joint Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (PCJCCI) has been given the preferential status by Chinese
Embassy in Pakistan with regard to issuance of visa for its members.
PCJCCI President S.M. Naveed disclosed this in a media statement
issued here Sunday, adding that during a recent meeting with a
delegation of PCJCCI in Islamabad, the Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing
was requested to give preferential treatment to the Joint Chamber’s recommendations for issuance of visas to Pakistani businessmen so as to materialize the efforts to promote bilateral trade and investment between China and Pakistan.
S. M. Naveed mentioned that he along with PCJCCI Secretary General Salahuddin Hanif visited Chinese Embassy in Islamabad where the Ambassador Yao Jing paid a very warm reception to them and highly appreciated the services being rendered by PCJCCI and termed them very effective to fill in the communication gap between people of China and Pakistan.
He said that Ambassador had extremely applauded the initiatives of promoting Chinese Language and culture, video conferencing facility and especially the efforts to support the visit of business delegations coming from China and vice versa. Chinese Ambassador, while commenting on PCJCCI efforts to promote bilateral business ties, was confident that the enhanced communication and frequent exchange of trade delegations between the two countries would prove to be highly beneficial in achieving the ultimate goal of mutual prosperity and economic development, he maintained.
The Ambassador also appreciated the forthcoming visit of delegation comprising Executive Committee Members of PCJCCI to Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu and offered his support to make it even more
fruitful so this can be utilized for business matchmaking and arranging meetings with concerned business counterparts in China.
S.M. Naveed reiterated that Pak-China Joint Chamber had been
providing one-stop solution to Chinese delegates which included visa issuance facilitation, security provision, business to business, business to government meetings, industrial visits, SEZ (Special Economic Zone), create awareness regarding taxation policies, SECP formalities, banking network, prefeasibility reports and market assessment report.
“We have proposed to support the restarting of operations of Cathay Pacific Airlines which was ceased in 2014,” he said and asserted that it was the only airline which had been catering to twenty destinations
from Pakistan to China while other airlines presently operating on China-Pakistan route only caters to five to six destinations.