On December 14, 2023, Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Liu Jinsong met with new Pakistani Ambassador to China Khalil-ur-Rahman Hashmi.

Liu Jinsong welcomed Khalil-ur-Rahman Hashmi to assume his new post in China, and said that the two countries have long firmly supported each other and the "ironclad" friendship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable. China is ready to work with Pakistan to implement the important common understandings reached by the leaders of the two countries, jointly build an upgraded China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), learn from each other and promote mutual progress in their respective modernization processes, and accelerate the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era.

Khalil-ur-Rahman Hashmi said that the mutual trust and friendship between Pakistan and China are the most valuable assets of the two peoples. He said he is deeply honored to be the ambassador to China, and is willing to work closely with China, prioritize the implementation of the common understandings reached by the leaders of the two countries, and accelerate the advancement of bilateral exchanges and cooperation in various fields and the construction of CPEC, so as to achieve new and greater development of Pakistan-China all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.

The two sides also had a friendly and in-depth exchange of views on issues of mutual interest and concern, and reached many common understandings.