Pakistani ambassador visits China's state media
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Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Masood Khalid met with Cai Mingzhao, President of Xinhua News Agency — China's national news agency and global news and information network, in Beijing today.
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Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Masood Khalid meets with Cai Mingzhao, President of Xinhua News Agency at Xinhua headquarters in Beijing on 21st April 2016. [Photo provided to China.org.cn] |
During the meeting, they reviewed the status of cooperation between Xinhua and Pakistani news media and discussed ways and means to further promoting and enhancing mutual cooperation.
Ambassador Masood Khalid appreciated Xinhua’s close and longstanding collaboration with Pakistani news media. He expressed his gratitude to Xinhua for promoting friendship between Pakistan and China through positively highlighting various aspects of Pakistan, its economy, culture and history.
The Ambassador said that China and Pakistan have enjoyed longstanding friendship and China was regarded as a close friend by Pakistani people. He lauded the achievements of the Chinese people and China’s transformation of the last three decades including that in the field of media. Ambassador Masood said that media played an important role in moulding public opinion and in promoting people-to-people interaction.
Talking about the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, Ambassador Masood Khalid expressed satisfaction over the progress on its implementation and stressed the need for increasing people-to-people contacts and further strengthening media linkages between the two countries. In the context of the 65th year of establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan, this year, Ambassador Masood and President Cai discussed mutually cooperative ventures between Xinhua and Pakistan side.
Xinhua President Cai Mingzhao said that Xinhua news agency through its objective, and comprehensive reporting acted as a bridge between the peoples of the two countries for furthering communications and exchanges and played a positive role in promoting bilateral relations between the two countries.
He apprised the Ambassador that Xinhua news agency and Pakistani mainstream media had a longstanding cooperation and several Pakistani media were Xinhua’s clients.
He expressed the hope that more extensive and in-depth communication and exchanges between Xinhua and Pakistani media would be carried out in the future. He said that Xinhua’s branch in Pakistan, set up in early fifties, was one of the earliest branches of Xinhua and had received strong support from the Pakistani side.
He said that last year with President Xi’s visit to Pakistan both countries had elevated their relationship to ‘all-weather strategic cooperative partnership’. He said the “Belt and Road” and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiatives had added new dynamism to China Pakistan relations.
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