Closer Pakistan-China Economic Integration Strategic Imperative: Prime Minister

BEIJING -- Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani highlighting the importance of closer Pak-China economic integration as 'strategic imperative' on Thursday urged the Chinese corporate sector and entrepreneurs to focus on Pakistan in their business plans. "The idea is not only to develop mutually-beneficial bilateral economic cooperation but also to jointly promote intra-regional and trans-regional development partnerships", Gilani told the corporate leaders and CEOs of the large business and industrial houses in China while speaking at the China-Pakistan Entrepreneurs Forum here.