{"id":15543,"date":"2025-08-02T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15543"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:05:01","slug":"islamabad-beijing-pledge-support-for-next-stage-of-cpec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15543","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad, Beijing pledge support for next stage of CPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Planning Minister\u00a0Ahsan Iqbal\u00a0met Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong on Saturday to discuss the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), according to an official release.<\/p>\n<p>Both officials reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral ties, with a particular focus on industrial development and business-to-business cooperation under CPEC Phase II. Iqbal conveyed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s goodwill message to Beijing and praised China\u2019s support during recent regional tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Pakistan, China gear up for JCC talks<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Pakistan take pride in the everlasting friendship with the leadership and people of China,\u201d he\u00a0said, noting that China\u2019s development model serves as an inspiration for Pakistan\u2019s move toward an export-oriented, technology-driven economy.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that Pakistan\u2019s URAAN initiative, built around a Five Es framework, aligns fully with CPEC Phase II objectives to secure economic, social and institutional stability through people-centric reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal stressed that developing a skilled, educated workforce and deepening B2B collaboration will be key pillars of the next CPEC phase.\u00a0Weidong reiterated China\u2019s strong commitment to expanding cooperation across multiple sectors and praised Iqbal\u2019s leadership role in turning CPEC from a blueprint into a multibillion-dollar reality.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning Minister\u00a0Ahsan Iqbal\u00a0met Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong on Saturday to discuss the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), according to an official release. Both officials reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral ties, with a particular focus on industrial development and business-to-business cooperation under CPEC Phase II. Iqbal conveyed Prime Minister Shehbaz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}