ISLAMABAD - Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong called on former president Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to discuss issues of mutual interest.

PPP Vice President Senator Sherry Rehman was also present on the occasion, a PPP statement said. The Chinese envoy was accompanied by Defence Attache Major General Chen Wen Rong, Consul General Karachi Li Bijian and other diplomats who exchanged with the PPP leadership views on areas of mutual cooperation and long standing brotherly relations between the two neighbouring nations and the two political parties, the PPP and the Communist Part of China.

Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari thanked the Chinese government for its bilateral cooperation in setting up the monumental China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects after Gwadar Port was granted to China by Zardari, and the assistance by the Chinese government to the people of Pakistan in the provision of essential vaccine aid to prevent COVID-19. 

“Both sides agreed to build on this strong relationship and undying bond nurtured over three generations of the PPP and the CPC,” said the statement.