LAHORE – Mr Zhao Shiren Chinese language Counsel Basic in Lahore awarded “Friendship Award 2023” to each day The Nation in recognition of its glorious reporting on promotion of Pakistan-China friendship, CPEC and Belt & Street Initiative. Col (Retd) Sayed Ahmad Nadeem Qadri, Chief Working Officer of Nawa-i-Waqt Media Group, representing MD of Nawa-i-Waqt Group, Rameeza Majid Nizami, obtained this award from Mr. Zhao Shiren. The award ceremony was held at a neighborhood hotel in Lahore, the place friendship awards 2023 had been distributed amongst numerous establishments and personalities. Provincial Minister S.M. Tanveer, Residence Secretary Punjab Shakeel Ahmad, DIG SPU Tayyab Hafeez Cheema, President LCCI Kashif Anwar, President Lahore Press Membership Azam Ch and different distinguished personalities, media individuals and families had been current on the event.
“President Xi Jinping’s particular representative and Chinese language Vice Premier He Lifeng’s July go to to Islamabad, coupled with Prime Minister Anwar Kakar’s profitable go to to China in October, have produced fruitful outcomes. The state of China-Pakistan relations is powerful, shimmering in daylight and can develop ever stronger with every passing day,” the Consul Basic mentioned.
“I’m joyful to share with you that the Chinese language Consulate Basic in Lahore, in partnership with the important thing stakeholders within the province, has additionally achieved some accomplishments. We’ve made corresponding efforts to reinforce mutual confidence, enterprise cooperation, cultural, academic and people-to-people exchanges between the involved Chinese language areas and provinces and the Punjab. Our joint celebration of the 72rd anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan was fairly successful. We held a gala occasion commemorating the 74th anniversary of the founding of the Individuals’s Republic of China, with each Honorable Governor and the Chief Minister in attendance..…This yr, we organized and facilitated three delegations from Punjab to visit Ningxia Autonomous Area, Jiangsu province and Beijing and Shenzhen respectively, yielding productive outcomes. We helped obtain two Chinese language delegations to Lahore in pursuit of cooperation on agriculture and legislation implementment capacity-building…..For the primary time, we helped safe visa facilitation authorizations to 13 chambers of commerce and trade in Punjab, including the Punjab Board of Funding and Commerce. It has been in impact since December 18th. We continued the CCG Scholarship packages in Okara and Sheikhupura districts, and established extra in native Universities. This initiative remains open to the certified faculties and universities in Punjab. …..We stepped up safety consciousness campaigns and offered extra proactive consular service to the Chinese language neighborhood, asking them to strictly comply with the SOP to enpositive most security.” CG added. The attendees had been briefed extra outcomes on the event.
Col Nadeem Qadri (Retd) mentioned in his speech that we profoundly thank His Excellency Mr. Zhao Shiren for conferring this prestigious Friendship Award to “The Nation”. Pakistan’s one of many previousest Media Group Nawa-i-Waqt has been conducting programmes “Nawa-i-Chin” in its electrical in addition to print media. Now for nearly final 5 years myself and my colleague Mr. Khawar Abbas Sandhu are writing frequently on Belt and Street Initiative to CPEC to develop perceiveing of this gigantic programme to our Urdu readers, the language which is understood in all components of nation.