{"id":55994,"date":"2025-12-06T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=55994"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:20:42","slug":"chinas-new-five-year-plan-offers-major-opportunity-for-pakistan-speakers-emphasize-at-forum-by-pakistan-china-institute-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/chinas-new-five-year-plan-offers-major-opportunity-for-pakistan-speakers-emphasize-at-forum-by-pakistan-china-institute-in-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s New Five-Year Plan Offers \u2018Major Opportunity for Pakistan,\u2019 Speakers Emphasize at Forum by Pakistan China Institute in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"ISLAMABAD : Pakistan-China Institute (PCI), under its flagship initiative \u201cFriends of Silk Road,\u201d organized a conference titled \u201cThe Five-Year Plan and China-Pakistan Future: Innovation, Youth Development, and Shared Opportunities\u201d in Islamabad on 04 Dec 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The event brought together young influencers, journalists, researchers, and diplomats to discuss how China\u2019s new Five-Year Plan, green development and self-reliance agenda can translate into opportunities for Pakistan\u2019s youth and economy.<\/p>\n

In his opening remarks, Executive Director PCI, Mustafa Hyder Sayed,<\/strong> underscored that a key message emerging from the recent plenary session of the Communist Party of China is \u201cself-reliance,\u201d which he described as central to \u201cthe rejuvenation of Chinese civilisation\u201d after the \u201chundred years of humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He emphasised that this drive for self-reliance \u201cis a very important opportunity for countries like Pakistan to engage with China, particularly through the Belt and Road Initiative, of which CPEC is a very important part,\u201d provided Pakistan ensures a stable security environment to attract relocating Chinese industries.<\/p>\n

Mustafa Hyder Sayed highlighted China\u2019s leadership in green development at a time when \u201cthe world is facing an existential threat to life because of climate change\u201d and when some countries are \u201cwithdrawing from international partnerships and the Paris Agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing to electric vehicles, renewable energy and green technologies, he said that \u201cChina is trailblazing in the realm of green development,\u201d and that Pakistan, as an agrarian economy vulnerable to flash floods and droughts, must seize this \u201cvery important opportunity to learn and partner with China.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

He also drew attention to the potential of industrial relocation from China\u2019s coastal provinces to Pakistan, noting that \u201chundreds and thousands of medium-sized enterprises from Guangdong and Zhejiang\u201d are looking to move to new markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cASEAN countries are seizing this opportunity, but we have yet to avail this opportunity,\u201d<\/strong> he warned, adding that Pakistan already has a ready-made platform in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: \u201cIt is not something new. It is an advanced mechanism which is there, with companies ready to come here, provided we have a stable security environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on the evolution of China\u2019s planning system, Nabila Jaffer, Head of China Study at the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS),<\/strong> explained that China is now preparing its 15th Five-Year Plan through a comprehensive process that \u201cinvolves people from the grassroot level to the top level in the process of planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

She noted that Chinese planning is \u201cmulti-sectoral and comprehensive,\u201d covering every area related to economic development, improving people\u2019s livelihoods and \u201cengaging constructively with the outside world.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

Tracing China\u2019s development trajectory, Nabila Jaffer reminded participants that when the People\u2019s Republic of China was founded in 1949, \u201cthe two most important challenges were health and education,\u201d with life expectancy at just 37 years.<\/p>\n

She underlined how Chairman Mao\u2019s early focus on basic health services and compulsory nine-year education laid the foundation for later reforms, which from the 1980s onwards shifted China from a command economy and collective agriculture to market-oriented reforms, integration into global trade and, by 2001, WTO membership and rapid development.<\/p>\n

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