Pakistan-China cooperation in training, skills development to strengthen bilateral relationship

During a webinar, Dr. Amjad Magsi, former Acting Director, Pakistan Study Center, University of Punjab said that universities in Pakistan and China can cooperate in engineering and IT to promote high-quality development of the second phase of CPEC. Dr. Magsi also highlighted that the two countries should cooperate in youth vocational training and skills development. He also highlighted the need for enhancing scholarships to far-flung areas of Pakistan.

Nov. 3 (Gwadar Pro) – Universities in Pakistan and China can cooperate in engineering and IT to promote the high-quality development of the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Pakistan and China must strengthen cooperation in youth vocational training and skills development, and Jiangxi University of Science and Technology (JXUST) can provide assistance in this regard, which will help provide skilled labor for the special economic zones and industrialization.

Dr. Amjad Magsi, former Acting Director, Pakistan Study Center, University of Punjab, who was invited by the Center for Pakistan Studies of JXUST, give an online academic lecture.

The above remarks were expressed by Dr. Amjad Magsi, former Acting Director, Pakistan Study Center, University of Punjab, who was invited by the Center for Pakistan Studies of JXUST to give an online academic lecture titled “China-Pakistan Relations in the New Era” on Monday.

He also talked about the enhancement of scholarships preferably for under-developed areas of Pakistan. Pakistani universities can help the Chinese learn the Urdu, Persian Arabic, and regional languages of Pakistan, which will promote the industrialization of CPEC.

Underscoring the need to further broaden the basis of Pak-China friendship to enhance the people-to-people relationship, Dr. Magsi opined that focusing more on cultural relationships especially art and literature is the need of the hour. “Both the friends with very rich traditions in art and literature have vast potential to further and widen the foundations of the lasting friendship. Students from North East University are studying at Punjab University at the Ph.D. level. China can send more students to study in Pakistan for languages, international relations, history, art, etc.”

JUST has close cooperation with the University of Punjab. In 2016, the Confucius Institute, co-established by JXUST, was put into use at the University of Punjab. Over the years, the Confucius Institute has cultivated many Chinese language talents in Punjab and contributed to the local economic and social development.

With the influence and support of the University, the Center for Pakistan Studies of JXUST has been committed to the political, economic, and cultural studies of China and Pakistan, and promoting academic and cultural exchanges between researchers of the two countries.

More than 70 people including researchers Zeng Fanjian, Cheng Yuan, and Li Jia from Pakistan Study Center of JXUST, Professor Liu Chengsheng, Director of Division of International Exchange and Cooperation, teachers, graduate students, and undergraduates from the School of Foreign Languages attended the webinar. The webinar was moderated by Liu Dawei, Executive Director of the Center.