China Southern Airlines increased the flights between Urumqi and Islamabad to promote people-to-people contact between Pakistan and Xinjiang region. According to Wu Gang, Chairman of Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology, a leading Chinese wind turbine maker, there has been increased socio-economic co-operation among the people in the recent years. China's Belt and Road Initiative and China-Pakistan economic corridor projects have enhanced the scope of the bilateral interaction.
He hoped that the initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013 will give a big boost to trade and business activities among the neighbouring regions. Wu Gang asserted that the businessmen should try to visit each other country more frequently to taken benefit of the available business potential.