ISLAMABAD: Pak, China Business Forum, organized by the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) and the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) concluded here the other day at Pak-China Friendship center, with the aim to solve industrial problems at the local level.
The main aim of the forum was promotion of research at Pakistani universities, to help the country build effective collaboration with China in technological development.
While addressing, Shoaib Ahmed Khan, an engineering professor at the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) was of the view that Research and Development (R&D) units at Pakistani universities could develop linkages with Chinese companies working in Pakistan.
Companies, businesses and universities set up over 120 stalls at the forum to display their technologies, products and research, with over 30 stalls belonging to companies from China.
Meanwhile, speakers at the lecture series urged students and researchers to focus on quality research instead of blindly attempting to publish journal papers.
They said that academia needs to reach out to the industry through research project proposals that provide solutions to industrial problems.
Managing Director of the Enterprise Business Group at Huawei, Colin Hu said that Huawei was interested in locally designed and manufactured solutions and in the next phase of operations, the firm would also want Pakistani entrepreneurs to help them in content development.
Alongside the business expo and lecture series, a symposium on Pakistan-China relations was also conducted.
Mustafa Hyder Sayed, Executive Director of the Pakistan-China Institute, an Islamabad-based think tank, spoke at the symposium about China's rise as a world power through promotion of economics and culture instead of neorealist strategies.
An international workshop on nanotechnology, policy, ethics in science and technology was also organized on the sidelines of the business forum.
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