Overview
- Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif met Consul General Sun Yan in Lahore and accepted his invitation to visit China, with both sides pledging deeper cooperation under CPEC.
- Officials outlined CPEC 2.0 as a shift toward industry, agriculture and mining to anchor production, trade and investment.
- Punjab promoted investor-ready sites at Allama Iqbal Industrial City and Quaid-e-Azam Business Park, including a plug-and-play Garments City for export-oriented manufacturing.
- A three-month Chinese language course at the Lahore Chamber concluded, highlighting a drive to build language capacity seen as critical for business ties.
- Business leaders pointed to a large trade gap with China—about $2.5 billion in exports versus $16.3 billion in imports—and called for steps to boost Pakistani sales.