12th anniversary of Sichuan Earthquake: friendship between Pakistan and China constantly sublimated.

BEIJING -- Yesterday was the 12th anniversary of 2008 China Sichuan Earthquake which had caused a total of 69,227 deaths, 374,643 injuries, 17,923 missing and it is considered as one of the most destructive catastrophe of China.

On that occasion, it was Pakistan that immediately reacted to support China to overcome such a disaster. In the last 12 years, friendship between Pakistan and China has been constantly sublimated.

After the Sichuan Earthquake, the Pakistani government immediately responded and donated several batches of relief supplies, gross worthy over 7 million RMB (over Rs 110 hundred million ) to the disaster area.

Within four days after the earthquake, Pakistan mobilized all of the transport aircrafts, invoked funds from national reserves and emptied reserves of disaster supplies to support China. On May 16th, 2008, two Pakistani air force C-130 transport planes arrived at Sichuan China with rescue team and supplies, according to an article published by China Economic Net.

Zhang Chunxiang, a former Chinese ambassador to Pakistan, confirmed that during the Sichuan earthquake, Pakistan had sent 22,260 tents which were entirety of war readiness inventory of Pakistan to China.

Recently, Yao Jing, Chinese ambassador to Pakistan, said that "The friendship between China and Pakistan has been stabilized by catastrophe again."A Both Sichuan Earthquake and COVID-19 outbreak are catastrophe of China and Pakistan.

Li Jingfeng, a researcher at the Sichuan Academy of...

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