ISLAMABAD – The Chinese government has decided to offer urgent assistanceto combat locust and dispatch a working group composed of leading expertsto help Pakistan develop targeted programs to jointly cope with the locustdisaster, Chinese Scholar Cheng Xizhong said on Tuesday.
“Although China itself is now experiencing the unprecedented epidemicsituation, the Chinese government has decided to dispatch a working groupcomposed of leading experts to help Pakistan develop targeted programs, soas to jointly cope with the locust disaster,” Cheng, Special Commentator ofChina Economic Net and Visiting Professor at Southwest University ofPolitical Science said in his article public by China Economic Net.
He remarked that the Chinese government and the Chinese people are verymuch concerned about the locust disaster in Pakistan.
China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic cooperative partners thatshare a good tradition of mutual assistance. In the face of difficulties,both sides have spared no efforts to help each other.
The China-Pakistan relations has become a model for promoting theconstruction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
He said that April is the harvest month in Pakistan. If there is anotherlocust disaster, all crops will be eaten by a new generation of locusts,and the loss will certainly be more serious than ever.
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At the critical moment when Pakistan is sounding the locust disaster alarm,the Chinese government has decided to offer urgent assistance.
Although China itself is now experiencing the unprecedented epidemicsituation, the Chinese government has decided to dispatch a working groupcomposed of leading experts to help Pakistan develop targeted programs, soas to jointly cope with the locust disaster.
He said that China has set up an emergency project to help Pakistan preparepesticide and spraying equipment. Chinese drones have already joined thebattle against locust in Pakistan. These fully embody the profoundfriendship of sharing weal and woe between China and Pakistan in times ofadversity.
“There has been few large-scale locust disasters in China since itsfounding in 1949 due to various effective prevention and control measures,but China had experienced frequent locust disasters in history. I couldoften see small locusts on soybean fields of our village when I was achild, but now we can hardly see them,” he said.
