PM Shehbaz lands in China to attend Sco Summit

Islamabad:

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived on Tianjin, China on Saturday, to participate in a series of high -level events, including the 25th Council of the Summit of the Summit and the commemorations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the commemorations that mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in the resistance war of the Chinese people.

At Tianjin Airport, it was received by Sun Meijun, Minister and Secretary of the CPC Committee of the General Administration of Customs, Yu Yunlin, president of the Permanent Committee of the Municipal Congress of the Tianjin Party and the Secretary of the Party, China to the Pakistan Ambassador of Pakistan Jiang Zaidong and the Pakistan Ambassador to China Khalil Hashmi.

Shehbaz is accompanied by the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, Minister of Planning and Development, Ahsan IQbal, Minister of Information and Transmission of Attaullah Tarar, as well as senior government officials.

“At the invitation of Mr. Xi Jinping, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is visiting China from August 30 to September 4, 2025 to attend the Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of Shanghai of State Summit heads held in Tianjin,” said a statement issued here by the foreign office on Friday.

In China, Prime Minister Shehbaz would hold meetings with President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Qiang during which multifaceted dimensions of the Bilateral Cooperation of Pakistan-China would be discussed, said the foreign office.

He would also attend the military parade with President XI and other world leaders who stop in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the world’s anti -fascist war.

The Prime Minister would interact with the reputed Chinese entrepreneurs and corporate executives to discuss bilateral trade, economic and investment ties. He would also go to a Pakistan-China B2B investment conference in Beijing.

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The visit is part of the exchanges at the level of leadership between Pakistan and China. The importance associated by the two countries is manifested to further deepen their “strategic cooperative association of the entire climate”, to reaffirm support in respective central interests, Advanced Phase II of CPEC and maintain regular communication in important regional and global developments, read the declaration of the foreign office.

This is the first visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz since the Pakistan-India War in May after Pahalgam’s attack. Pakistan came out victorious when he knocked at least 6 Indian combat planes, including the very advanced French made Rafale. It was the first time that Chinese military hardware was tested on a real battlefield against Western technology.