{"id":22996,"date":"2024-12-21T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T06:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=22996"},"modified":"2024-12-21T06:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T06:41:31","slug":"govt-focusing-on-industrial-competitiveness-minister-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=22996","title":{"rendered":"Govt focusing on industrial competitiveness, Minister Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16283498831734712097.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16283498831734712097.jpg 856w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16283498831734712097-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16283498831734712097-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahsan Iqbal lauds China-Pakistan \u201cIron Brother\u201d bond, envisions high-tech future in CPEC phase II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing: Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives, Professor Ahsan Iqbal highlighted China\u2019s significant progress in economic innovation and new technologies during a press conference.<br>He noted that through the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Pakistan will not only receive support from China but also collaborate in technological development, benefiting from cutting-edge research and continuous innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister stressed that the adoption of high-quality new technologies will significantly benefit Pakistan, especially in its agricultural sector, as the country aims to boost exports and enhance productivity and competitiveness in industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a youthful population skilled in information technology, Pakistan sees potential for cooperation in developing a robust digital technology platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister, currently on a visit to China, addressed a press conference where he answered questions on new technological innovations, energy, environmental, and trade cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized, \u201cThere is a strong, unconditional bond between the people of Pakistan and China,\u201d reiterating that those behind terrorist activities aimed at undermining the tremendous progress made under CPEC would not succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPakistan has dedicated over 12,000 full-time army personnel to safeguard Chinese projects. In addition, counterterrorism and police forces are committed to protecting the Chinese workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We view the Chinese workers in Pakistan as our national guests, contributing to Pakistan\u2019s development,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahsan Iqbal lauds China-Pakistan \u201cIron Brother\u201d bond, envisions high-tech future in CPEC phase II Beijing: Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives, Professor Ahsan Iqbal highlighted China\u2019s significant progress in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[134,1032,97],"class_list":["post-22996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-main-stories","tag-china-embassy-islamabad","tag-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-cpec","tag-ministry-of-planning-and-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22998,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996\/revisions\/22998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}