Beijing, December 13th—Sun Haiyan, Vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met here today on the afternoon with a delegation of senior officials of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). 

Sun spoke positively of the sound development momentum of China-Pakistan relations, calling relations between political parties an important part of China-Pakistan relations. The CPC is willing to work with major political parties of Pakistan, including the PPP, to carry forward the special friendship between China and Pakistan, deepen exchanges and mutual learning of experience in state governance and administration, implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries on China-Pakistan relations through inter-party channels, and promote practical cooperation in various fields between the two countries, including the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to better benefit the two peoples. 

The Pakistani side highly praised China's great development achievements and thanked the Chinese side for its long-term valuable support. The PPP has always attached importance to developing relations with China and firmly supports the construction of the CPEC. The Pakistani side hopes to continuously deepen friendly exchanges with the CPC, learn experience in state governance and administration from the Chinese side, jointly strengthen exchanges and cooperation in various fields such as economy, science, technology, and people-to-people and culture engagement between the two countries, and promote Pakistan-China all-weather strategic cooperative partnership for constant development.