{"id":52229,"date":"2025-09-15T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=52229"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:07:00","slug":"president-zardari-makes-historic-first-visit-by-a-foreign-leader-to-manufacturers-of-j-10c-avics-advanced-aircraft-complex-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/president-zardari-makes-historic-first-visit-by-a-foreign-leader-to-manufacturers-of-j-10c-avics-advanced-aircraft-complex-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"President Zardari Makes Historic First Visit by a Foreign Leader to Manufacturers of J-10C, AVIC\u2019s Advanced Aircraft Complex in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52230\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/China-President-J-10-C-e1757912720459.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/>Chengdu, China, 14 September 2025: On the 128th day since the ceasefire with India, President Asif Ali Zardari, constitutionally the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, visited the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China\u2019s flagship aerospace and defence conglomerate engaged in the design and production of a wide range of military and civilian aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, the President toured the sprawling complex in its entirety, which produces the J-10C fighter jet that played a crucial role during the recent conflict. He also met AVIC\u2019s engineers and scientists, listening to their insights on innovation, production and future technologies.<\/p>\n<p>President Zardari was briefed on AVIC\u2019s advanced capabilities, including the J-10 fighter jet, the co-production of the JF-17 Thunder with Pakistan, as well as progress in the J-20 stealth 5th-generation fighter aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, fully automated units, and integrated command-and-control systems for modern multi-domain operations.<\/p>\n<p>The President noted that the J-10 and JF-17 have greatly strengthened the Pakistan Air Force, a fact clearly demonstrated during May 2025\u2019s Ma\u2018raka-e-Haq and Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos. He lauded AVIC as a symbol of China\u2019s technological advancement and of the enduring strategic partnership between Pakistan and China.<\/p>\n<p>President Zardari\u2019s visit also marked a historic first, as no foreign head of state had previously visited the AVIC complex.<\/p>\n<p>The President was accompanied by Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, First Lady Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, Senator Saleem Mandviwalla, Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to China Khalil Hashmi, and China\u2019s Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong, who is travelling with the President throughout the visit.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed that the two countries would continue to expand collaboration in defence production and aviation, further deepening their all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chengdu, China, 14 September 2025: On the 128th day since the ceasefire with India, President Asif Ali Zardari, constitutionally the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, visited the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China\u2019s flagship aerospace and defence conglomerate engaged in the design and production of a wide range of military and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[6066,7533,54,7005,143,251,4476,48,58,1117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52231,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229\/revisions\/52231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}