MoU Signed: Chinese and Pakistani Institutions Join hands to promote the Chinese Language Initiative.

Chinese and Pakistani Institutions will join hands to promote the learning of the Chinese Language Initiative to promote the bilateral ties and enhance the student exchange and education opportunities. This initiative will help students and faculty members in Pakistan familiarize themselves with the Chinese language, and this program will open more doors for opportunities for business and employment. These were the remarks by the participants of the session held virtually between Viivbook, Tianjin Hantong Educational Technology Co, and leading Universities from different regions of Pakistan to build an understanding of the Chinese Language Initiative program by Viivbook.

Asif Noor, Director of the Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies (IPDS), moderated the session. In his introduction, Asif Noor has explained the entire program and shared that the pilot program of this nature has already been successfully running in two leading Universities in Pakistan, Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University (SBBWU), Peshawar. While explaining further, he added that as this program was intended to expand to other Universities and this virtual session was meant to appraise the interested and upcoming batch of participating Universities about the program and its benefits. Ayaz Qaiser, Director of Student Affairs, University of Sialkot, Dr. Saleem Farooq Shaukat, Director, and Dr. Ali Ahmad, Associate Professor, Head of Humanities Department, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Dr. Bushra Parveen, Director ORIC, Rawalpindi Women University were present on occasion. Director Beijing Normal University Belt and Road Department Zhang Jian Chen was also present. While speaking on occasion, Dr. Saleem Farooq, Director, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, said that this initiative is timely and required. As a result of thriving CPEC, there will be more opportunities for young students.

This program will help students mainly from the agriculture region of Vehari; learning the Chinese language creates a significant threshold for the local businesses to thrive and cooperate with Chinese enterprises primarily related to agriculture. Ayaz Qaiser Ayaz Qaiser, Director of Student Affairs, University of Sialkot, said that students and...