Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on his election as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
Islamabad: The Chinese President said that under the leadership of Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan will set new heights of development and it will continue its traditional friendly relations.
The Chinese President added that it is hoped that Pakistan will be able to achieve more achievements, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in all fields and jointly build an upgraded version of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
The Chinese PM also sent a congratulatory message to his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif.
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Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Xi has also been the president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. He belongs to the fifth generation of Chinese leadership.
The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager following his father’s purge during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi province, where he joined the CCP after several failed attempts and worked as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China’s coastal provinces. Xi was governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, before becoming governor and party secretary of neighboring Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. Following the dismissal of the party secretary of Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, Xi was transferred to replace him for a brief period in 2007. He subsequently joined the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) of the CCP the same year and was the first-ranking secretary of the Central Secretariat in October 2007. In 2008, he was designated as Hu Jintao‘s presumed successor as paramount leader; to that end, Xi was appointed vice president of the PRC and vice chairman of the CMC. He officially received the title of leadership core from the CCP in 2016.
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