Islamabad:Pakistan-China Institute (PCI), under its flagship initiative “Friends of Silk Road,” here Friday organised a conference titled “The Five-Year Plan and China-Pakistan Future: Innovation, Youth Development, and Shared Opportunities”.
PCI Executive Director Mustafa Hyder Sayed highlighted China’s leadership in green development at a time when the world, according to him, is facing an existential threat to life because of climate change and some countries are withdrawing from international partnerships and the Paris Agreement.
Pointing to electric vehicles, renewable energy and green technologies, he said that China was trailblazing in the realm of green development. Sayed said that Pakistan, as an agrarian economy vulnerable to flash floods and droughts, must seize that opportunity to learn and partner with China.
Yang Nuo, Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Islamabad, recalled Chairman Mao’s famous remark to students that youth represent “the world at eight or nine o’clock in the morning,” and said he was moved by the participants’ sincere feelings towards China and constructive suggestions.
