Red Army veteran praises Nawaz visit; emphasizes to emulate President Xi welfare policies

By Masood Sattar Khan in Beijing
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

A veteran of Red Army while praising Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif for his address and participation in the Boao Forum for Asia in China said that Pakistan need to emulate the policies of present leadership of China led by President Xi Jinping to address the economic woes. 

“I was very delighted to see on television your prime minister addressing the Boao Forum and meeting Premier Li Keqiang,” remarked Zhong Ming in an exclusive interview. 

Zhong, who will turn 100-year in coming August, said that “together we (Pakistan-China) can build a harmonious society. The cooperation between the two countries will have win-win situation for both the people, he added. 

The Veteran Red Army solder said that if welfare polices of China is emulated by the present government in Pakistan, it can also help improve the lot of the common people. Zhong,on the directions of Chairman Mao Zedong served in various capacity in Red army and also assigned responsibilities in strategic important Shanxi province. 

Highlighting the grassroots level policies of the Chinese government particularly for the down trodden masses lived in surrounding counties and villages of Ganzhou in below poverty line, he said that now prosperity can be seen on their face. It was possible because of upward trajectory of the socio-economic condition of the villagers, he noted. 

Since 2012, when President Xi was holding the charge as Country’s Vice-President he had approved a number of welfare projects in Xingguo county in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province. Now people even at the county level have uninterrupted electricity, well equipped schools, clinics, internet and even houses for old and retired service people. 

People interviewed pointed out that under a policy, farmers were provided new homes for which major chunk of money was arranged by the banks on the instructions of the government on very nominal interest rate. 

“We are very pleased and proud in living in new homes, as in old homes, life was miserable especially during monsoon season when we were constrained to live in mud-home where water used to creep from roof and walls," Wu Guanghuang, a 78-year old farmer of Xinfeng county in Ganzhou said. 

He had fortunately survived from the massive flooding that inundated his muddy house built within his field of tobacco crop.