{"id":34386,"date":"2017-12-02T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T07:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=34386"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T07:45:35","slug":"china-to-promote-key-infrastructure-projects-in-pakistan-premier-li-keqiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=34386","title":{"rendered":"China to promote key infrastructure projects in Pakistan: Premier Li Keqiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SOCHI Dec 02 (TNS):<\/strong> China would like to initiate key infrastructure projects in Pakistan and discuss a free trade zone as well, Premier Li Keqiang told Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during a meeting held on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization&#8217;s (SCO)\u00a0Council of Heads of Government (CHG) summit in Sochi, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Li said both countries have maintained commendable cooperation in various fields and made progress in building the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) over the past four years, according to China Daily&#8217;s report\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>China is willing to promote cooperation in production capacity and talk out an agreement for a free trade zone, which can promote balanced trade and strengthen enterprise ties for both nations, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasi&#8217;s counterpart extended gratitude to him on the security provided to Chinese companies and citizens in the South Asian neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>Li hoped that security can be further enhanced to cultivate an inviting environment.<\/p>\n<p>China would like to boost exchanges and coordination through multilateral mechanisms \u2014 such as the SCO \u2014 and regional affairs, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasi said Pakistan is ready to maintain high-level exchanges and deepen cooperation in various fields with China.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasi assured his counterpart that Pakistan will take measures to safeguard cooperative projects.<\/p>\n<p>As the rotating SCO chair, China will further promote the organization\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCHI Dec 02 (TNS): China would like to initiate key infrastructure projects in Pakistan and discuss a free trade zone as well, Premier Li Keqiang told Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during a meeting held on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization&#8217;s (SCO)\u00a0Council of Heads of Government (CHG) summit in Sochi, Russia. Li said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1383],"tags":[1384,733],"class_list":["post-34386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sochi","tag-sochi","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34388,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions\/34388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}