In his message of felicitation to his Pakistani counterpart, the Chinese premier said in recent years, under the leadership of Your Excellency, the Pakistani people had properly responded to different kinds of challenges and made new achievements in maintaining national security, stability and economic development.

He said Pakistan relations maintained a rapid momentum of development and in particular, the construction of China Pakistan Economic Corridor moved forward steadily, and had played a demonstrative role for the mutually beneficial cooperation among China and other countries along the "Belt and Road".

Li Keqiang said the Chinese government had always viewed and developed China-Pakistan relations from a strategic and long-term perspective.

He said China was willing to work with the Pakistani government to push forward China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership for new and continuous progress.

"May I wish Pakistan enjoy prosperity and its people well-being," the Chinese premier said.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2017