Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong said China’s ethnic unity has led to its economic prosperity and that China is prepared to share its experience with iron brother Pakistan to achieve similar results.

He stated this in an interview with Pakistani and Chinese electronic media on the occasion of a function hosted here by the Chinese community to celebrate China’s National Day and Autumn Festival.

During the interview, he answered questions about China’s practices and experience in strengthening ethnic unity.

He pointed out that many overseas Chinese in Pakistan are from Xinjiang.
“As ironclad friends, we are certainly ready to strengthen exchanges and mutual learning with Pakistan in all fields.”

According to the Ambassador, President Xi Jinping had stated, “We have relied on the united efforts of all ethnic groups across the country to create great achievements that will go down in history, and we must also rely on such united efforts to write new chapters of glory.

The Ambassador also answered questions about China’s economic situation and development opportunities, its efforts in forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and Chinese people at home and abroad working together to build the Chinese Dream.

The ambassador reiterated that as China’s ironclad friend, we hope and trust that Pakistan will be able to benefit from its achievements in promoting social stability economic well-being of its people.

Ambassador Jiang pointed out that many overseas Chinese in Pakistan have roots in Xinjiang. Today’s Xinjiang stands as a vivid epitome of China’s new chapters in the two miracles. We sincerely thank Pakistani media friends for their support and promotion of Xinjiang’s development, making “Xinjiang is a good place” a household phrase.

Notably, following President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to Xinjiang last September, Chief Minister of Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif also made her first visit to Xinjiang last month, both highly praising Xinjiang’s development achievements and vitality.

He added, Xinjiang’s vivid practice of social stability, economic prosperity, and people living and working in peace teaches us that unity is strength, and only through unity can we achieve victory.

No matter how many ethnic groups or regions a country has, as long as everyone works together with one heart, it can gather development momentum and create a better life.

We believe that all political parties and sectors of Pakistani society will surely gather the strength of unity to better promote national development and achieve people’s well-being.

About China’s economic development, Ambassador Jiang Zaidong said, “Over the past 77 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and through the unremitting efforts of the Chinese people, we have made remarkable achievements and accomplished the great historic leap from standing up and growing prosperous to becoming strong.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we have won the battle against poverty, completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, continued to write new chapters in the two miracles of sustained rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and advanced the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation into an irreversible historical process.

This year has seen a good start to China’s 15th Five-Year Plan. In the first half of the year, GDP grew by 4.7 percent year on year, with an incremental increase of 3.6 trillion yuan, marking the highest level for the same period in the past five years.
Just in August, China’s production continued to accelerate and upgrade.

The value added of equipment manufacturing rose by 12.1 percent year on year, with high-tech manufacturing growing by 16.7 percent.

The value added of Lithium-ion batteries and industrial robots increased by 57.2 percent and 34.6 percent respectively. Foreign trade also maintained strong growth.

In August, the total value of goods imports and exports grew by 19.8 percent year on year, 0.6 percentage points faster than the previous month, with exports up 18.6 percent and imports up 21.7 percent.
Viewed from the first eight months as a whole, exports grew by 14.6 percent and imports by 22 percent, with import growth consistently outpacing export growth."

China, the Ambassador added, has thus become a veritable major global market and a source of new development opportunities.
"Of course, this does not represent the full picture of China’s economy, but it does reflect, from one perspective, the overall momentum of steady progress and improvement in quality and structure.

Although the adverse impact of the external environment continues to deepen and domestic supply-demand imbalances persist, given the current growth trend and the underlying trend of future development, we have every reason to believe that China’s economy will continue to move toward higher quality, better structure and stronger momentum,” he added.

Ambassador Jiang further said, “We are certainly pleased that the Pakistani media have described China’s economic development as ‘stood out as a bright spot,’ while we hope even more for common development among all countries of the world.

As President Xi Jinping has pointed out, ‘The Chinese people not only hope to live better lives themselves, but also wish other peoples to live better lives.’

The ambassador said, his country will continue to provide more opportunities to the world through the achievements of Chinese modernization, and in particular, better benefit for our ironclad friend Pakistan by focusing on three key areas — agriculture, industry, and mining — to accelerate the building of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) 2.0, and work hand in hand to build an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era.

China’s development results from the united efforts of all ethnic groups under CPC leadership, the Ambassador added.

Under President Xi Jinping’s care and commitment, all ethnic groups in China have become as close as family, pursuing development together.

From 2020 to 2025, the total GDP of China’s five autonomous regions grew from 6.01 trillion yuan to 8.66 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth of 5.5%, truly achieving improved livelihoods and better lives.

This year marks the 77th anniversary of the founding of New China and the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
Under the CPC’s strong leadership, our country has achieved the great leap from standing up and growing prosperous to becoming strong, filling Chinese people at home and abroad with pride.

Specifically in Pakistan, over the years, overseas Chinese have served as people-to-people envoys of China-Pakistan friendship, enthusiastically supporting the development of the motherland and actively promoting economic, trade, and cultural exchanges between the two countries.

Chinese enterprise employees, as the main force of China-Pakistan practical cooperation, have advanced the high-quality development of CPEC, consolidating the foundation of China-Pakistan all-weather friendship with tangible cooperation results, the Ambassador added.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP) — Pak-China