Moin ul Haque, Ambassador to China announced in a statement while talking to China Economic Net that Pakistan is collaborating with China to work on establishing and improving E-commerce platforms. “We are working with some of the Chinese companies to establish certain e-commerce platform in Pakistan as part of our poverty alleviation program called Ehsaas, which is doing very well.”
With the whole world going digital, especially after the pandemic, it is about time that Pakistan also strengthens their place digitally through E-commerce development.
“Being an agriculture country, a very strong, great economy, we need to modernize our agriculture. We need to have better seeds, a modern irrigation system, a high yield of our crops.
Also, I think we lack investment or better infrastructure in our cold chain network.
These are all very important areas in which China has a large success,” said Moin.
“The e-commerce platform has been used to market the farm products of the villages in China as a part of the poverty alleviation strategy. Farmers were given training about the use of mobile, how to e-commerce stores, branding of the products, etc.
In 2020, e-commerce sale in China was about trillion, the highest in the world.
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“Because we lack the infrastructure of cold chain and logistics, most of our farm products are wasted from farms to the market. We require more investments into our cold chain industry and storage modernization.
We are working with Chinese authorities to update our cold chain in logistics,” he said.
