On January 10, 2025, Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong and Pakistani Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch held the fourth round of diplomatic consultations at the vice-foreign ministerial level between China and Pakistan in Beijing.

The two sides agreed that China and Pakistan are ironclad friends and all-weather strategic cooperative partners, and the time-tested friendship between the two countries has grown even stronger. Under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and Pakistani leaders, China-Pakistan relations have been growing at a high level, strongly safeguarding and promoting the common interests of both sides amidst the changes unseen in a century.

The two sides agreed the need to implement the important common understandings reached by the leaders of the two countries, strengthen exchanges at all levels, expand practical cooperation in various fields, better coordinate development and security, make every effort to ensure the safety of Chinese personnel, projects and institutions in Pakistan, upgrade the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), promote the continuous development of the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership, and accelerate the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era.

The two sides also had an in-depth exchange of views on international and regional issues of common interest and concern.

On the same day, Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong and Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch co-chaired the Fifth Meeting of the CPEC Joint Working Group on International Cooperation and Coordination in Beijing.