‘Eight major steps’ of Xi, asking us to come and grab opportunity: Kakar
The eight major steps were announced by Xi during his speech at the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum.
DUBAI: The eight major steps Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China will take to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation can be seen as a development opportunity for Pakistan, said Pakistani Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar during an interview with foreign press.
In the interview with China Media Group (CMG) which aired on Friday, Kakar said the eight major steps also show that China is providing an opportunity for a journey, a path to progress, cooperation, coordination, and President Xi is asking the rest of the world to join hands with China.
“Pakistan does need that big push to transform its social structure, its political structure, its trade structure and do that transformation from a 19th century model to a modern living lifestyle. How do we do that? That is the opportunity knocking right at our door. That grand idea of President Xi is asking us to come and grab that opportunity, and I think so we’re going to do that,” said Kakar.
The eight major steps were announced by Xi during his speech at the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation held in Beijing on October 18.
XI’s EIGHT MAJOR STEPS:
- Build a multidimensional Belt and Road connectivity network
- Support an open world economy, with its total trade in goods and services expected to exceed $32 trillion and $5 trillion respectively in the 2024-2028 period
- Carry out practical cooperation for the BRI
- Continue to promote green development
- Continue to advance scientific and technological innovation
- Support people-to-people exchanges
- Will promote integrity-based Belt and Road cooperation
- Strengthen the institutional building for international Belt and Road cooperation.
