The Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng jointly signed the Banking Service Protocol of Service Trade Agreement of Free Trade Area between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with the Pakistani Minister of Commerce Khurram Dastgir Khan on April 20 , 2015, when the Chinese President Xi Jinping was visiting Pakistan.

Both sides agreed to strengthen the mutual opening up of banking industry in both countries, further improve the liberalization level of the service trade of China-Pakistan Free Trade Area and provide more financing convenience to enterprises of the two countries. The signing of the above agreement will play an active role in enriching and consolidating the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.