70 years of bilateral friendship: stories of "Pak Irons" in China

Bilal: expecting more benefits from CPEC

Bilal Ahmed was graduated as MA in Teaching Chinese as an International Language from Yunnan Normal University in 2014. Before that, he got his BA in Kunming, having received a scholarship jointly provided by the governments of China and Pakistan.

To study the Chinese language, he bought the text books for Chinese high school students, watching the Chinese TV series of Heroes of the Marshes and Ipartment.

During his study in China, Bilal served at the China-South Asia Exposition. Via working as an interpreter for the Pakistani exhibitors, he practiced his oral Chinese. In recent years, Bilal has worked as a teacher or translator in Pakistan.

Bilal Ahmed said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is of great benefit. The CPEC assisted Pakistan in road building and power generation, while providing more job opportunities for locals.

Bilal disclosed that his dream is to be a university teacher. And he expected that the economic corridor would bring even more benefits to peoples in the two countries.

Babar: telling stories of China-Pakistan friendship

Makhdoom Babar is the editor-in-chief of the Pakistani newspaper Daily Mail.

Over the past 20 plus years, Makhdoom had around 100 tours in China, allowing him to visit Bejing, Yunnan and other Chinese provinces. Seeing China’s growth, he also witnessed the China-Pakistan friendship for generations.

Yunnan province has increased its exchanges and cooperation with Pakistan in recent years. Though the two places are distant geographically, Babar said, the China-South Asia Expo allowed more Pakistani businessmen to know about Yunnan.

In 2015, the Pakistani Daily Mail signed an MoU with Yunnan Daily Press Group, kicking off new cooperation in media. “The friendly media exchanges of the two countries showed the friendly bilateral relations in a sense,” said Babar.

By joining hands together, he hoped the Pakistani and Chinese media could tell the friendly stories objectively, increase people-to-people exchanges and contribute more to bilateral friendship.

Reporting by Wu Ping and Zu Hongbing (Yunnan Daily); Trans-editing by Wang Shixue