BEIJING: Wang Yu, Consulate General of China in Karachi, Pakistan has been appointed as new Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Afghanistan.
He presented the copy of Letter of Credence to the General Directorate of Protocol Department, Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, reports Gwadar Pro Net on Friday.
Wang Yu, born in October 1966, has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China since 1990. He once served as counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh, Consul General of China in Mandalay, Burma, and Consul General of China from 2016 to 2019 in Karachi, Pakistan.
During his tenure as Consulate General of China in Karachi, the development of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) saw tremendous progress.
In the jurisdiction of China’s Consulate in Karachi distributes major projects under CPEC, such as Gwadar Port and Gwadar Free Zone, positioned as a regional commercial, industrial and shipping hub; energy projects including Qasim Coal-fired Power Plant, Hub Coal-fired Power Plant, Dawo Wind Power Plant, and Thar Power Plant, all of which constitute the robust resources for generating electricity to the national grid of Pakistan; and the Multan-Sukkur Motorway, connecting the surrounding regions to the economic and cultural center of Southern Punjab Province.
Wang has also weathered an attack on the Consulate conducted by Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA)in November 2018 that drew widespread attention around the world.
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Former Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jinsong returned to China in August this year, to replace Sun Weidong as Director of the Policy Planning Department of the Foreign Ministry of China. Sun Weidong was assigned as the Chinese Ambassador to India.
Yao Jing, the predecessor of Liu Jinsong, began to serve as Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan in November 2017, when Sun Weidong resigned and took the position as Director of the Policy Planning Department of the Foreign Ministry of China. (With additional input from INP)
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