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Urgent: China, Pakistan sign lucrative deals during Xi's first state visit

Xinhua, April 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif witnessed on Monday the signing of over 50 cooperative deals between the two sides in such fields as infrastructure, energy, agriculture, among others.

The deals covered the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking southwest Pakistan's deepwater Gwadar Port with northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a exemplary project of cooperation between the two countries and bears great significance to regional peace and prosperity, said Sharif when meeting the Chinese president. Endi