Launching Ceremony of the China-Pakistan Year of Friendly Exchanges co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the Embassy of Pakistan was held in Beijing on January 28th. Vice President Li Yuanchao of China and Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq of Pakistan National Assembly attended the function.Before the ceremony, Vice President Li Yuanchao met briefly with Speaker Sadiq and his delegation.Both sides spoke highly of bilateral friendship and all-weather strategic partnership, and said that both countries will take this opportunity to carry out a series of political, economic and people-to-people exchange programs. CPAFFC Vice President Feng Zuoku and Pakistan Ambassador Masood Khalid delivered speeches respectively at the ceremony .

In February 2014,President Xi Jinping met with visiting President Mamnoon Hussain. The Joint Statement between the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on "Deepening China-Pakistan Strategic and Economic Cooperation“was issued, in which both sides agreed on designating 2015 as the China-Pakistan Year of Friendly Exchanges.