Country's first Sino-Pak Ethnomedicine Research Center opens
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KARACHI: (APP) The country's first Sino-Pakistan Ethnomedicine Research Center opened on Friday at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi.
Speakers at the inauguration ceremony suggested that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) should be developed with the primary focus on high-tech manufacturing with a number of industrial clusters along its path.
They said that set up of the country's first Sino-Pakistan Ethnomedicine Research Center 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 in Karachi, Wang Yu and Vice Chancellor University of Karachi, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Khan, jointly inaugurated the research center, and also delivered key lectures.
Prof. Dr. Yuhui Qin, President Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (HUCM), China, former Federal Minister for Science and Technology and former Chairman Higher Education Commission Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman and Director ICCBS Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary also spoke on the occasion.
Prof. Hubiao Chen along with other Chinese officials and Pakistani scholars were also present.
The Chinese Consul General said that like the CPEC, the Sino-Pakistan Ethnomedicine Research Center will also be beneficial for the people of both the countries. Two old institutions, ICCBS and Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, worked together to establish such useful research facility in Pakistan.
China will also offer more students exchange programs in future, he said.
The Karachi University's Vice Chancellor Prof. 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; problems at the varsity need to be corrected. `I have accepted the vice chancellorship as a challenge', he asserted.
Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman said the CPEC has enormous potential to launch Pakistan into today's knowledge-driven world. The CPEC should be developed with the primary focus on high-tech manufacturing with a number of industrial clusters along its path.
Each of these clusters should be powerful knowledge hubs with four key components within each hub, these components include technical training centres producing highly qualified technicians, he said and added that they also include tech parks to support new start-up companies, a third knowledge hub could focus on high-value agriculture, and another knowledge hub should set up to focus on mineral extraction and processing.
Prof. Dr. Yuhui Qin said that traditional Chinese medicines are widely used in China and is becoming increasingly prevalent in other parts of the world.
He said that CPEC is a massive project that would equally be beneficial for the people of Pakistan and China.
Prof. Iqbal Choudhary said this is the country's first Sino-Pakistan Ethnomedicine Research Center, which is setup for the benefit of humanity. He said that Chinese and Unani systems are the ancient medicine systems of holistic and natural healing.
He said that traditional Chinese Medicine and Unani focus on the patient, more than the disease.
