8 September 2025(Kamran Raja): At the invitation of H.E. Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Mr. Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, visited China from August 30 to September 4, 2025 to attend the twenty-fifth meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-fascist War. During the visit, H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China met with Prime Minister Sharif. Prime Minister Sharif also held talks with Premier Li Qiang of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. They had in-depth exchanges of views on China Pakistan relations and on international and regional issues of mutual interest. The two sides recalled that China and Pakistan are good neighbors connected by mountains and rivers, good friends who are faithful to each other, good partners offering help and assistance to each other, and good brothers sharing weal and woe. During his successful state visit to Pakistan in 2015, President Xi Jinping pointed out that the China-Pakistan community with a shared future should be continually enriched to better benefit both peoples, promote stability and prosperity in the region and serve as a model for building an Asian community with a shared future. In 2018, the two countries agreed to strengthen the China-Pakistan All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership and to build an even closer community with a shared future in the new era. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of both countries, the two sides have made solid strides in building a China-Pakistan community with a shared future, a vivid demonstration of the spirit of a community with a shared future for humanity.
The two sides agreed that China-Pakistan All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership is a choice by history and by the people, and enjoys unanimous support from all walks of life in both countries. Having withstood the test of changing international circumstances, the enduring partnership and iron-clad friendship between China and Pakistan transcends geopolitical interests and is an important positive factor for regional peace, stability and development. The two sides have always understood and supported each other, and have been deepening strategic mutual trust and practical cooperation. The two sides agreed that in a changing and turbulent world where global transformations not seen in a century are unfolding at a faster pace, the building of a China-Pakistan community with a shared future is of even greater relevance and strategic significance. It was reiterated that any attempt to disrupt or undermine the strategic cooperative partnership is bound to fail. The Chinese side reiterated that the China-Pakistan relationship is of special significance in China’s foreign policy. The Pakistani side underscored that the Pakistan-China relationship is the cornerstone of its foreign policy. The two sides will adhere to the overarching goal of building a community with a shared future, continue to respect each other and carry forward the friendship among future generations, continue to treat each other with good faith and a high degree of mutual trust, continue to pursue mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation, and continue to stand in solidarity and meet challenges together, so as to continually develop new practices in building a China-Pakistan community with a shared future and add new dimensions to the relationship between China and Pakistan. To that end, the two sides agreed to develop and implement this action plan and to build, between 2025 and 2029, a China-Pakistan community with a shared future with even stronger political mutual trust, closer economic and trade ties, deeper security cooperation and a more solid popular basis, which will serve as a model for the building of a community with a shared future with neighboring countries. Both sides also agreed to take stock of the implementation by the two foreign ministries under existing mechanisms on an annual basis.