On the side of the street here, the figure of the caravan is everywhere, it is full of lights, and often singing and dancing, Qu Lihua and everyone are infected, feel the joy of the people, with the music involuntarily swaying the body, it is very joyful, happiness has no borders, people want to live a good life, this is the same.

The caravan is dominated by buses and trucks, and the body is painted with colorful decorative patterns such as flowers, birds, landscapes and people, and many small ornaments are inlaid with stitches, and the top of the front of the car is decorated high, like wearing a crown, and even multimedia effects of sound and light are added, flashing with charming light, and people follow the caravan, laughing, waving their arms, and singing happy songs.

"I've seen this kind of scene in Indian movies, but I didn't expect to see it on the streets of Pakistan!" Qu said.

"Yes, Pakistan is very close to India, they all have caravans!"

Further on is the residential area, which is the most characteristic architectural area of the city, with a reasonable layout and convenient life, with apartments on three or four floors and villas on two floors.

Qu Lihua said: "I thought Pakistan was very backward and poor, but I didn't expect them to have villas. ”

Meng Wenjie said: "Yes, they also have villas, there are rich people, there are poor people, not everyone is poor. ”

"Their homes are exquisitely designed, beautiful in appearance, and distinctive, with spacious courtyards, trees and flowers, which are elegant and chic and pleasing to the eye. ”

Qu Lihua nodded, "It still looks very good, and coming here to see it with my own eyes has changed my impression of Pakistan." ”

The delegation walked all the way along the street, everyone walked and looked, the street environment was beautified, on both sides of the road, inside and outside the courtyard, there were green trees, lawns, flowers and fountains everywhere, birds and flowers, planted trees, flowers and plants did not show any traces of artificial carving, showing a natural form, coupled with wide streets, scarce pedestrians, fresh air, there is a quiet mountain village scenery.

"There aren't many people here, but there are a lot of people in Karachi, it's densely populated and it's very crowded," Professor Abbas said. ”

Qu Lihua asked curiously, "Professor Abbas, what kind of city is Karachi?"

"Karachi is the largest city in Pakistan, located on the southern coast of Pakistan, northwest of the Indus River Delta, south of the Arabian Sea, on the plain between the Güleri River and the Malil River. ”

"Karachi's flat terrain, surrounded by many sandbars and islands, with two seasonal rivers running through the city, has a natural harbor with an annual throughput of more than 10 million tons, and is not only a major export port for agricultural products produced in Punjab, but also flourished after independence for the import of machinery products, and also serves as a trading port for its landlocked neighbor Afghanistan. ”

"Karachi has roads to the mainland and Iran and other Middle Eastern countries, and is also the center of the national railway and air network, connecting Europe, Asia and Africa. ”

"Railways are mainly used for freight transport to and from the mainland, but there are also passenger and suburban railways, and Karachi Airport is one of the important international aviation hubs, an important transit point between Europe and the Far East. ”

"Industry and trade are the two pillars of Karachi's economic prosperity, with industries mainly including textiles, footwear, metal products, machinery including automotive portfolios, aircraft repair, electronics, chemicals, food, rubber products and petroleum products. ”

"Handicraft products include homespun cloth, lace, tapestries, pottery, bronze and gold and silver embroidery, which are also well-known in Pakistan. ”

"Pakistan is rich in tourism, with the famous city of Karachi having some of the finest golden beaches in the Arabian Sea, and the famous tourist resort of Mohenjo Daro, a magnificent city site of an ancient civilization in the Indus Valley in 2500 BC, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980. ”

"The historic city of Lahore has the famous Royal Fort and Shalimar Gardens, Badshahi Mosque, etc., which is an outstanding representative of the splendid civilization of the Woer Dynasty, which was included in the World Heritage List in 1981, and Peshawar is a famous tourist attraction in Pakistan, Peshawar has many places of interest and many famous buildings, including Sikh Castle, Kelber Pass, Tara, Peshawar Museum, etc., I will take you to the opportunity to go. ”

"Let's go back to Karachi, and it's really touching to talk about the history of the city, originally it was just a small fishing village, due to many historical reasons, but also because it has the attraction of a big city, cultural and ethnic diversity, there is an influx of a lot of poor people, poor people from all over the city to make a living, and soon the population has grown many times, which has caused the city's population and size to swell viciously, giving jobs, housing, transportation, Water and electricity are under great pressure, and many people live in crowded and cluttered slums that lack the necessary facilities for life, and often lack electricity and water. ”

"So poverty, vicious population growth, backward and outdated facilities are the difficulties of the city's development, and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has been welcomed by people, and China has extended a helping hand to Pakistan, which we are very grateful for. ”

"The CPEC has many cooperation projects, and the two sides have held in-depth discussions on long-term planning, transport infrastructure, energy, industrial cooperation, Gwadar port, social and people's livelihood, international cooperation and coordination, agriculture, security, etc., and the two sides have reached a series of important consensus. ”

"The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the most dazzling pearl, and a series of great achievements have been made in just a few years, including the smooth progress of the construction of Gwadar Port, the steady progress of cooperation in the field of transportation infrastructure, the in-depth promotion of cooperation in the field of energy, the rapid advancement of industrial cooperation, the rapid advancement of social and livelihood cooperation, and the coordination of international cooperation and security work as planned. ”

"There are also a series of new projects in the pipeline and under negotiation, and these fruitful construction results have once again demonstrated to the world the strong vitality and great potential of the Belt and Road Initiative. ”

"The two sides continue to strengthen docking, deepen mutual trust, promote the corridor to achieve more practical results, achieve high-quality development, and jointly build a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era, so we welcome Chinese to Pakistan, and China and Pakistan have deep friendship." ”

"Many of the large-scale projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), especially the Gwadar Port Development Master Plan, the completion of the preliminary design for the upgrading of the 1st Railway Line, and the functionalization of the Gwadar Port Free Zone, I think this is a great achievement across the era, and I would like to take you to see it. ”

"In the next stage, industrial cooperation in the construction of the Pakistan Economic Corridor will become the focus of cooperation, especially the cooperation in key industries such as steel, textiles, oil and gas, minerals, etc., and we look forward to more cooperation with China, which will be a new era." ”

When Professor Abbas smiled and introduced the CPEC cooperation project to everyone, he had a relieved smile on his face, and it could be seen that the old professor was grateful to China from the bottom of his heart, and he often said that "if China had not extended a helping hand to Pakistan and helped Pakistan build power plants, Pakistan would still have frequent power outages, can you imagine the dilemma of 12 hours of power outages every day?"

"There are too many poor people, there are frequent power outages, and living in slums that are crowded and cluttered, and lack the necessary facilities for life, will cause social unrest, so we must develop the economy, improve people's livelihood, and improve the quality of life, which is the best way to solve poverty." ”

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