Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that the early implementation of the USD 50 billion CPEC projects will not only help realise the true potential of the economic relations of Pakistan and China, but also for the region.
Khan chaired a high-level meeting with his Cabinet colleagues and discussed his maiden tour to China during which matters related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is to be discussed, an official statement said.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Khan will embark on his first visit to China next month.
The meeting was also attended by Pakistan's Finance Minister Asad Umer, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, Planning and Development Minister Khusro Bakhtiar and Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed, inlcuding the senior officials, it said.
The Prime minister said that "strengthening all-weather Pakistan-China strategic cooperative partnership is the cornerstone of Pakistan's foreign policy."
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