Islamabad:
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Tianjin, China, to participate in a series of high -level events on Saturday, including the 25th council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the heads of the head and commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the resistance war of the Chinese people.
At Tianjin airport, he was received by Sun Meijun, Minister and Secretary of the CPC Committee of the General Customs Administration, Yu Yunlin, Chairman of the Permanent Committee of the Municipal Popular Congress of Tianjin and secretary of the Chinese party in Pakistan Jiang Zaidong.
براہ presurbance راست: ویراعظم محمد شہباز شریف کا چین کے سرکاری دورے پ)
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Shehbaz is accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar, Minister of Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal, Minister of Information and Dissemination Attaullah Tarar, as well as senior government officials.
“During the invitation of Mr. Xi Jinping, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Visit China on August 30, 2025 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of the leaders of the State Summit in Tianjin,” said a statement published here by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In China, Prime Minister Shehbaz would hold meetings with President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Qiang during which the multifaceted dimensions of Bilateral Pakistani-China cooperation would be discussed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
He would also attend the military parade with President XI and other world leaders who stand in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the world’s anti-fascist war.
The Prime Minister would interact with renowned Chinese businessmen and business leaders to discuss bilateral, economic and investment links. It would also be for an investment conference B2B Pakistani in Beijing.
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The visit is part of the leadership exchanges between Pakistan and China. It manifests the importance attached by the two countries to further deepen their “strategic cooperative partnership of all time”, reaffirm support on respective basic interest issues, prerequisite phase II of the CPEC and maintain regular communication on significant regional and global developments, read the Declaration of the Foreign Bureau.
This is the first visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz since the War of Pakistan-India in May after the attack on Pahalgam. Pakistan came out victorious when it killed at least 6 Indian fighter planes, including the French very advanced Made Rafale. It was the first time that Chinese military equipment was tested on a real battlefield against Western technology.
