A new joint Pakistan-China think tank is going to be launched which will be dedicated solely to research and development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
The decision was taken at a three-day conference in the Chinese island of Hainan, the Pakistan Today reported.
The newly-formed think tank “Research and Development International (RANDI)”, will have two co-chairpersons, according to a press statement issued by the Islamabad office of Pakistan China Institute.
The co-chairpersons are Madame Zhao Baige, former minister and currently member of parliament and vice chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, and Senator Mushahid Hussain.
The Pakistan secretariat of the new joint think tank would be located at the Pakistan-China Institute in Islamabad, while its China secretariat would be co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the China Institute of Reform & Development (CIRD), two top Chinese think tanks.