With the joint efforts of China and Pakistan, the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has made significant progress in the past few years, making significant contributions to Pakistan's economic and social development, consolidating the China-Pakistan strategic cooperative partnership, and building a China-Pakistan community with a shared future.

The plane landed smoothly at Fort International Airport, which is located about 40 kilometers away from the southwest suburbs of Fort Fort, the capital of Pakistan, and the terminal is composed of the main building and three rest corridors in the east, south and north, which are "aircraft shaped" on the plane.

The main body of the terminal building is a reinforced concrete frame and shear wall steel structure, and it is the largest international airport in Pakistan.

After the plane landed at Fort International Airport, head Xia Yuxiang took Qu Lihua and his party off the plane, and came to greet them with their old friend Abbas, who is a university professor and a good friend of Dean Zhang.

When Abbas saw the head of Xia Yuxiang, he warmly stepped forward to hug him.

"Dean Zhang called me and told me that you are coming, I am really happy, I came to pick you up, you are really a distinguished guest, it is rare to come to Pakistan, I want to entertain my old friends in China. ”

"Haha, Professor Abbas, it's been a long time, are you okay?"

"Very good, I have been to China several times, last year I went to China for academic exchanges, I am really very grateful to Dean Zhang for receiving me warmly, providing me with room and board, and considering me very thoughtfully, I have always wanted to have the opportunity to repay you, and I will look forward to you this year. ”

"Hahaha, the main purpose of our visit this time is to visit Pakistan and see the achievements of the China-Pakistan cooperative economic construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. ”

"Really thank you very much for the 'Belt and Road', we Pakistan in the past few years is very short of electricity, big cities 12 hours a day power outage, 12 hours of electricity, an hour of power outage, another hour of electricity, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, our first key project is to open a power plant, the construction is still very effective, after three years of efforts, the speed is so fast, it has solved the trouble of always power outages before, to be able to solve the problem of electronic shortage in such a short period of time, it is not easy. ”

"Without the Belt and Road Initiative, Pakistan may remain in a backward state for 10 or 15 years, and this is the credit of the Belt and Road Initiative. ”

"The construction of power plants has also led to related industries, such as selling stone and cement, and many workers have found jobs, which is not a small number, directly or indirectly solving the employment of tens of thousands of workers. ”

"The power plant is officially in operation, we Pakistan provide the plant, raw materials, workers, China sent engineers and technicians to the power plant for guidance, Chinese engineers and technicians are very professional, they work hard, kind, easy to get along with, come to us, very welcome, everyone works together, eats and lives together, and has a good relationship. ”

"And China cooperates with us to build roads, build railways, Chinese are good at building roads, China's infrastructure construction is very good, China is really developing very fast." ”

"China's high-speed rail is famous all over the world, it is very advanced, fast and smooth, the technology is very advanced, and there are many places where we need to learn from China. ”

"When it comes to the roads that China has helped Pakistan build, we will first think of the road of friendship between China and Pakistan - the Karakoram Highway, in order to repair this road, China has sent more than 10,000 manpower, spent more than 10 years, sacrificed the lives of hundreds of soldiers and workers, Pakistan remembers China's kindness and has always been grateful. ”

This highway has become a link between China and Pakistan, is known as a symbol of friendship between China and Pakistan, and is also known as the eighth wonder of the world because of the difficulty of construction. ”

"According to statistics, there are 24 main bridges, 70 small bridges, more than 1,700 culverts, 8,000 tons of explosives, 80,000 tons of cement, and 30 million cubic meters of earth and rock transported on the entire highway. ”

"For Pakistan, this can be said to be a miracle, I will arrange for you to live first, in order to save trouble, I did not arrange a hotel, just live in our school apartment, we have slightly better conditions there, I don't know if you can get used to it?"

"It doesn't matter, as long as we can live and have a place to eat, we don't have high requirements!" said Head Xia.

"That's good, then I'll arrange it like this, if you have any needs, you can put it forward at any time, and I'll try my best to meet it!"

Professor Abbas sent the delegation to the school apartment, Xia Yuxiang walked in with the group, the accommodation conditions here are obviously much more backward than China's first-tier cities, but they are also cleaned up, two people in a room, quilts and sheets are just changed, and there are simple daily necessities in the apartment.

"Everyone has worked hard, everyone put their luggage first, I took everyone to our school cafeteria to eat, the school specially booked a private room for VIPs, so you don't have to squeeze together with students to eat in the big cafeteria. ”

"The food we eat here can't be compared with China, and I don't know if you are used to eating it?"

In order to entertain the VIPs who came from China, the school still made arrangements and invited some chefs who can cook Chinese food to make some Chinese dishes, so that the members of the delegation felt more cordial.

Head Xia said: "This is already very good, it doesn't matter, we can eat as much as we want, just feel free!"

"You're welcome, please take a seat!"

Qu Lihua sat down next to Head Xia, next to Meng Wenjie.

Professor Abbas sat to the left of Head Xia and waved for the chef to serve the food, starting with a few Chinese home-cooked dishes, such as braised pork, roast duck, curry chicken, stuffy eggplant, and mapo tofu.

"I asked the Chinese chef to help me make it, and I knew that you were coming, maybe you couldn't get used to our food here, so in order to cook a few hometown dishes for you, I had to go a long way and ask a Chinese chef to help. ”

Head Xia said: "Professor Abbas, you are really polite, in fact, we Chinese like to taste exotic food in the countryside, which is also very good." ”

Abbas smiled, "I also took this into account, and I asked our chef here to make a few local dishes for everyone to taste." ”

The chef brought a few dishes, and Abbas introduced: "This dish is called roasted sheep's trotters, and it is often found in Pakistani Sunday breakfasts and banquets, and it is a more ceremonious dish, and the hooves in the ingredients are mainly sheep's trotters and cow's trotters, accompanied by onions, garlic, tomatoes and curry." ”

Qu Lihua said: "It looks really good, with the red color of the tomato and the yellow accent of the curry soup, and the steaming soup is very beautiful." ”

"Hehe, everyone, you're welcome, eat while it's hot!"

Qu Lihua filled a bowl of soup and tasted it, it was fresh and hot, and it was indeed delicious.

"Well, it tastes good, it's delicious!"

"Hahaha...... Professor Abbas was very happy, "There are still many dishes in the back, if you like to eat more, everyone has come from afar, hard work!"

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