Chapter 500: What I Saw and Heard

From Gwadar Port to Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, Wang Dong and his team walked for a day and a night.

Although there was no stop along the way, what he saw and heard along the way made Crown Prince Mohammed gradually believe Wang Dong's words, and Pakistan is undergoing earth-shaking changes.

You know, Balochistan has always been the poorest and most backward province in Pakistan.

The largest province and the adjacent Federally Administered Tribal Areas have been a source of unrest in Pakistan for decades.

Along the way, Crown Prince Mohammed saw a different scene.

Because of the construction of roads, even in some of the more remote towns, you can see the traffic of transport vehicles, and the prosperity and abundance that comes with it.

In addition, construction is taking place everywhere.

In a small town north of Turberd, Crown Prince Mohammed saw a hotel that was being expanded, and the boss was very enthusiastic about Wang Dong and others, but he didn't care much about Mohammed, because in the past few years, the number of Chinese people who came here to visit every year has increased, and the consumption of tourists here has made many people in the town make money, so the boss took out his savings for many years to expand the hotel.

Further north, I also met more than a dozen Chinese who had come to Pakistan by car for tourism.

To Crown Prince Mohammed's surprise, the local government paid close attention to these Chinese tourists, and even arranged for the military and police to open the way for Chinese tourists.

True, Balochistan is still not very calm.

However, this also shows that Pakistan attaches great importance to its relationship with China, and also knows that these tourists from China can provide a lot of opportunities to the local area.

You must know that hundreds of millions of people travel abroad in China every year.

It is only tourism and does not include business travel.

These Chinese tourists spend trillions of yuan abroad every year, and this money has created tens of millions of jobs for hundreds of countries.

If some of them, even if only a million Chinese tourists, travel to Pakistan, it would be unimaginable.

You must know that with the spending power of Chinese people, a Chinese tourist can create at least one job for the local area and feed the local family.

In Quetta, Crown Prince Mohammed met with a new car factory that Chinese companies have invested in the area.

The plant plans to produce 200,000 vehicles per year, mainly small civilian vehicles, that is, sedans, off-road vehicles, etc.

Because of the plant, the local government in Quetta has more than doubled its tax revenue.

Because of this factory, tens of thousands of families in the local area have lived a prosperous life.

Also because of this plant, hundreds of small local businesses have received orders.

According to the plan formulated by the local government of Quetta, it will take ten years to build Quetta into Shiyan of Pakistan and make Quetta the automobile city of Pakistan!

Next to the factory, there is an evening school for adults.

Not only did the Chinese companies invest in factories, but they also helped the locals get rid of illiteracy, to be more precise, by opening night schools to train qualified skilled workers.

What's more, Huaxia Enterprise provides full student loans.

To put it simply, after signing a labor contract with an enterprise, you do not need to pay tuition, but wait until you join the job and repay the tuition fee in five years.

To the surprise of Crown Prince Mohammed, the locals even had to rely on connections to get into the evening school.

Quite simply, there are too many people who want to go to work in a factory.

Even late at night, there are many day students outside the night school, who are actually students who are listening outside the classroom, and almost all of them are adults in their twenties.

It's not that I've been kicked out, it's that there aren't enough seats in the classroom, and I can't grab a seat if I come late.

As for the primary and secondary schools established by the Pakistani government, they are even more overcrowded.

In Quetta's only high school, there are many students studying even late at night.

Why?

As long as they study hard and get good grades, they can hope to continue their studies at the national universities in Islamabad and Karachi.

The most top-notch, there is also the hope of studying in China.

In fact, as long as you can go to the national university to study, you will become a pillar of society in the future, live a prosperous and happy life, and win glory for your family.

What's more, local civilians have come to believe that learning is the best way to change their lives.

Obviously, this is the Chinese experience.

You must know that before China achieved industrialization and modernization, the first thing it did was to eradicate illiteracy, and it took the most time, as long as decades.

During this period, Huaxia has established a complete set of talent selection and training mechanism with the entrance examination as the core.

Although there are many drawbacks in this mechanism, no one can deny that it is the existence of this mechanism that allows the civilians at the bottom of the society to obtain an upward channel, thereby enhancing the activity of the society and making more people willing to work hard to change their destiny.

It is precisely this spirit of hard work that has enabled China to embark on the road of prosperity and strength.

When 1.4 billion people are all struggling, who can stop them from moving forward?

Although Pakistan is not Chinese, Pakistan has nearly 400 million people.

When 400 million Pakistanis start working hard and believe that they can change their lives, who can stop Pakistan from becoming civilized and powerful?

It can be seen that what Pakistan has learned from China is not only the ability to engage in construction.

Huaxia has given Pakistan more than just construction support.

On a deeper level, Pakistan is learning from China!

This spiritual change, or rather spiritual motivation, is the key, the main driving force for Pakistan's modernization.

It must be admitted that Pakistan has learned very well and has done very well.

Perhaps, not twenty years.

In another 10 years, when those young people who climb on the windowsill of the classroom and study hard will go to work, and when those teenagers who are still studying at their desks late at night will graduate, Pakistan will gain a surging impetus for development, and Pakistan will be promoted by these people to move forward rapidly towards industrialization and modernization.

What follows can be said to be the same.

Not just in the remote mountainous cities of Quetta, but all over Pakistan, the changes are palpable, and all Pakistanis are happy to fight for the new era.

Why?

Because in the struggle, Pakistanis see hope!

Three days later, Wang Dong and his entourage arrived in northern Pakistan.

The road has come to an end, and the border crossing of Huaxia is opposite.

The three-day itinerary was very intense. With the exception of Islamabad and Lahore, Wang Dong took Muhammad to all small towns in Pakistan.

There's nothing to see in big cities, and real change happens in small places.

Muhammad was also deeply touched, with a sense of rediscovering the world.