The platform, according to Khan, will improve scientific community exchanges and communication between the two sides and benefit the citizens of both nations.
Khan Muhammad Wazir, Science Counsellor (Technical Affairs), Pakistani Embassy in China, claims that China and Pakistan have established a joint laboratory in Tianjin on smart disaster management/prevention of major infrastructure to train researchers and scientists from Pakistan.
In an interview, he claimed that the Joint Laboratory would train Pakistani researchers and scientists at the Master’s and Doctoral levels in addition to other top talents in fields like civil engineering, intelligent disaster prevention, and big data related to important infrastructure like high rises, dams, ports, bridges, railway platforms, etc.
The platform, according to Khan, will improve scientific community exchanges and communication between the two sides and benefit the citizens of both nations.
The Ministry of Science and Technology of China is in charge of the Joint Laboratory on Smart Disaster Management/Prevention of Major Infrastructure. China’s Southeast University, Shenzhen University, the Ministry of Emergency Management’s Tianjin Fire Research Institute, and the Tsinghua University’s Hefei Institute of Public Safety are partner organizations/universities on the Chinese side, while the University of Science and Technology Bannu is the partner institution on the Pakistani side.
According to CEN, the partner universities and research centres from China and Pakistan will use the laboratory as a platform to submit applications for Chinese scientific research projects and access funding for scientific research. In order to strengthen relations between China and Pakistan, he said,
“The Chinese Partner Universities will extend invitations to university researchers and members of the government of Pakistan to travel to China for brief exchanges and learning.”
He continued, “The Chinese side has agreed to my proposal. We need to include more universities from the Pakistani side in this cooperation in order to make it more active and to accomplish the goals of the Joint Laboratory.”
In order to promote Belt and Road Joint Laboratories and pertinent institutions of scientific research in China and Pakistan on the global stage, Khan stated that the lab will jointly organise international conferences.
He said that in addition to academic research, the promotion of Chinese smart disaster prevention technology in Pakistan and other Belt and Road nations is at the centre of the construction of this laboratory.
It is worth mentioning that the Pakistan-China Joint Lab is one of the total seven joint laboratories China has set up with BRI countries.