Staff Reporter
Beijing
Pakistan Ambassador to China, Moin Ul Haque has said that the second phase of China Pakistan Economic Corridor was people centric and this flagship project would directly benefit common people by creating jobs, alleviating poverty and improvement in the livelihood.
“In the second stage of CPEC, we are going into agriculture cooperation with China. Pakistan is an agricultural country and we need to modernize our agriculture system, upgrade yield of our crops and new seeds development.” “And all we can do under the CPEC projects which will be directly befitting people of Pakistan by job creation by alleviating poverty and improving the livelihood of people,” he said while talking in ‘The Point’ a current affairs programme of China Global Television Network. Ambassador Haque said that CPEC since its launch in 2015 during President Xi’s visit to Pakistan had progressed very steadily. It was a very comprehensive project in the areas of infrastructure development, energy, transport, and telecommunications.
