On November 14, 2023, Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong met with new Ambassador of Pakistan to China Khalil-ur-Rahman Hashmi. Sun Weidong welcomed Khalil-ur-Rahman Hashmi to China to assume his new post. The two sides had an exchange of views on China-Pakistan relations and issues of mutual interest and concern and agreed to follow through on the important common understandings reached by the leaders of the two countries, deepen the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership, and accelerate the building of a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era.