Daily Times

LAHORE: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday said that Pakistan must emulate China’s economic vision.

“We have to learn from China, how China with its political stability, how China with its social solidarity and harmony, and how China with the pursuit of its economic policies and vision has become a success story in the world.”

Speaking at the launch of China Pakistan Economic Corridor long-term plan, the minister lauded Chinese leadership which uplift its economy and make it the biggest economy in the world.

“We need to learn from the wisdom Chinese leadership have shown, and the path Chinese leadership have followed to bring about [the] biggest miracle of human civilization,” he said, explaining that China went from being the least developed country to world’s fast-developing country.

The Chinese leadership realised that if “they are not able to defeat poverty then it will have no dignified position in the world.”

China has become the export engine in the world because it has mastered low-cost production, he remarked. “We should follow economic miracle of China.”

He added, “CPEC, for the first time, offers an opportunity to Pakistan to join China in a community of shared destiny and prosperity.”

“We should have done this decades ago.”