Speakers at the inauguration ceremony of the first Sino-Pakistan Ethno-medicine Research Centre on Friday suggested that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) should be developed with primary focus on high-tech manufacturing, with a number of industrial clusters along its path.
They said that the setting up of the country's first Sino-Pakistan Ethno-medicine Research Centre at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) at the University of Karachi is a joint effort to serve the people of the two countries. They said that Chinese and Unani are the ancient medicine systems of holistic and natural healing.
Chinese consul general Wang Yu and the university's vice chancellor Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan inaugurated the research centre and delivered the keynote lectures.
Dr Qin Yuhui, president of the Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, former Federal Minister for Science and Technology and former chairman of the Higher Education Commission Dr Attaur Rahman and Director ICCBS Dr Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhary also spoke. Professor Chen Hubiao along with other Chinese officials and Pakistani scholars were also present on the occasion.
The Chinese council general said that like CPEC, the Sino-Pakistan Ethnomedicine Research Centre will also be beneficial for the people of both the countries. Two old institutions, the ICCBS and Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, worked together to establish the research facility in Pakistan. China will also offer more students exchange programmes in future, he said.
The University's vice chancellor, Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan, said the new Pak-China project will broaden the horizon of this largest public university in the country.
He said that his university is passing through a crucial time and problems at the university need to be corrected. "I have accepted the vice chancellorship as a challenge," he said.
Dr Attaur Rahman said CPEC has enormous potential to launch Pakistan into today's knowledge-driven world. CPEC should be developed with primary focus on high-tech manufacturing with a number of industrial clusters along its path.
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