Chairman Senate Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani spoke at the opening of the Pakistan-China Research Center for Party and State Governance.
Gilani took on the honorary chairmanship of the research center during the event. The Pakistan-China Economic and Cultural Council (PCECC) founded the research facility. Leo Hye-shing, Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, arrived in Pakistan with a delegation and was welcomed by the Chairman Senate.
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that China’s experience in governance, institutional development, long-term planning and economic transformation offers valuable insights for strengthening Pakistan’s legislative and policy institutions. The Chairman Senate stated that China’s institutional continuity, long-term planning and development experience deserved serious academic and institutional study.
“Our friendship is a legacy, but its future is a shared responsibility,” Gilani said. Gilani mentioned welcoming Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to the Parliament of Pakistan in 2010. He noted that his father had visited China in 1956 as a member of Pakistan’s first Constituent Assembly.
The Chairman Senate said that the Senate of Pakistan had commemorated the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China through a unanimous resolution.
