China felicitates award-winning Pakistani CPEC staffers

A Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson on Thursday warmly congratulated 18 Pakistani staffers on winning awards from China in recognition of their contributions towards China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects pertaining to Gwadar port, energy, infrastructure and other fields.

“An online [award] ceremony was recently held to confer awards on the Pakistani staffers working on the CPEC projects. We express warm congratulations to them,” Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during his regular briefing.

He said that the CPEC is an important pioneering project under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and it has maintained positive momentum since its launch in 2013 making solid contribution to Pakistan’s national development and regional connectivity.

“We will work with [the] Pakistani side to make greater contribution in order to deliver more benefits to the two people and people in [the] rest of the region,” he added. 

CPEC Authority Chairman Asif Saleem Bajwa and Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong congratulated the award-winning staffers and urged them to keep anchoring their roles in perpetuity.

APP