The visit comes as Pakistan and China mark 75 years since establishing diplomatic relations and aims to strengthen their “All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership” and deepen bilateral cooperation, officials said.

During the visit, PM Shehbaz is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. Discussions are expected to focus on the development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as well as trade, investment, industrial cooperation, agricultural modernisation, information technology, science and technology, and people-to-people exchanges.

PM will begin the trip in Hangzhou, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, where he will chair a Pakistan-China business conference focused on information technology and telecommunications, battery energy storage systems and agriculture, the Foreign Office said.