The New Era: China in My Eyes | Executive Director of Grandview Institution Pakistan: China Provides a Tremendous Example for Countries with a Huge Population

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has laid out the blueprint for national rejuvenation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization. The series “A Glimpse of China: What Does the Chinese Modernization Mean to the World” features the global resonance to Chinese modernization and presents interviews with experts and scholars from across the world, providing an external perspective on the scientific connotation and specific characteristics of the Chinese modernization. The interviews also discuss the referential potential of Chinese high-quality development for other developing countries.

The year of 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). China and Pakistan are good friends, good partners, and iron brothers. In recent years, the two countries have supported each other and forged ahead under global turbulences, strengthening the unwavering friendship between China and Pakistan. In this episode, Naseem Khan Achakzai, the executive director of Grandview Institution and former advisor to the speaker of Balochistan Provincial Assembly, shares his observation of Chinese modernization and the commonalities in terms of development ideologies between China and Pakistan. Naseem mentions that, unlike western countries where modernization benefits only a certain class, Chinese modernization is for common people. From his perspective, Pakistan, being the sixth most populous country in the world, might find that China's practices in local governance and education provide an excellent model to learn.