A total of 325 Chinese universities have signed MoUs with Pakistan under CPEC, and 581 Pakistanis have taken advantage of Chinese scholarships as a result.

Collaboration with China in the agricultural sector will increase food security of Pakistan, according to Dr. Safdar, Director General of the CPEC Cell at the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC).

According to him, 113 training sessions with Chinese universities were held as part of CPEC, and 19,000 people received Chinese language instruction.

A total of 325 Chinese universities have signed MoUs with Pakistan under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and 581 Pakistanis have taken advantage of Chinese scholarships as a result. Dr. Safdar believes that by working together, food security of Pakistan could be improved.

He was speaking at the opening session of a three-day international conference on sustainable food security solutions at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), which was organised by the CPEC Consortium of Universities in partnership with the South China Agriculture University (SCAU), Guangzhou, and the University of Karachi.

Agriculture ties with Pakistan are being strengthened, according to Prof. Chen Letian, Director of International Affairs at SCAU, with the food and environmental crises being the main areas of concern. He claimed that cooperation between China and Pakistan in the agricultural sector would yield noticeable results.

The director of ORIC, Dr. Jafar Jaskani, stated that Pakistan’s per-acre agricultural production is extremely low and added that Pakistan and China have excellent relationships for the advancement of agriculture.

According to Prof. Dr. Cai Kun Zheng, Deputy Dean of SCAU’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, they are actively pursuing environmentally friendly practises, ecological agricultural technology, and biodiversity to achieve green agriculture development. As a sustainable alternative to soybean protein for animal and poultry feed, Dr. John Hu of SCAU proposed insect protein.

A provincial public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China is called South China Agricultural University.

The university, which was established in 1909, is thought to have an advantage in the area of agricultural science. It is a university of double first class. The university has 26 colleges and more than 40,000 students, including students from more than 40 different countries who are studying abroad.