On May 5th, 2018, Lu Qingcheng, Secretary General of China World Peace Foundation and Beijing International Peace Culture Foundation, was invited to participate in the 2018 Pakistan Investment and Trade Conference. At the meeting, important guests such as the Pakistani Ambassador to China and the Pakistani Minister of Commerce delivered speeches. Finally, as the chief guest of the conference, Imran Khan, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan delivered a speech, summarizing the development experience that he learned from this visit to China: Pakistan should learn from China in the following aspects: First, to make national long-term plan because only long-term plans can provides guidance for a country's long-term development; Second, to vigorously make great efforts in poverty alleviation to achieve the prosperity of most people; Third, to learn from the Chinese government's anti-corruption experience, to strengthen political will, so as to do a good job in anti-corruption work, and to establish a national party building think tank to provide systematic solutions for national development; Forth, to attach importance to education and cultivation of technical talents. At the end of his speech, he called on Pakistani overseas personnels to return home to build the country.
Lu Qingcheng and Mr. Mohammad Younus Dagha, Deputy Minister of Commerce of Pakistan
Secretary-General Lu and Mr. Mohammad Younus Dagha, Deputy Minister of Commerce of Pakistan, held a brief conversation. Secretary-General Lu said: "China World Peace Foundation and Beijing International Peace Culture Foundation have been having close relations with the Pakistani government, its embassy to China and Pakistani enterprises in China and they are willing to make the best efforts to further promote China-Pakistan relations and continue to promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries.” Mr. Dagha was very grateful for the Foundations' long-term efforts to promote cooperation and exchanges between the two countries, and hoped that they would play greater roles in people-to-people and cultural exchanges.