ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari reached Islamabad on Sunday morning after his successful five-day visit to China during which he held talks with the Chinese president and prime minister among many other important political and business leaders.

He conducted a meeting with the Chinese People's Consultative Conference (CPPCC) chairman, visited the Pakistan and China pavilions at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, addressed forums on economic development and alternate energy and touched base with provincial politicians and leaders of the corporate sector.

Top-level leaders from the business and energy sectors focused on launching joint economic projects, promoting regional connectivity, exploiting new energy sources, chalking out strategies to curb militancy and terrorism, and working out measures for enhancing people-to-people.

MoUs: Briefing journalists, Farhatullah Babar, the president's spokesman, said that during Zardari's fifth visit to China since he has taken charge of office, Beijing pledged to provide a $7.3 million grant to Pakistan for new development projects. The two countries also signed an agreement on economic and technical cooperation and four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs), he said. Babar added that the MoUs were signed in the fields of health, geological survey and agriculture. An MoU between the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation and China Radio International was also signed for providing Chinese broadcasts in Urdu in ed Pakistani cities on FM radio, he said. Full Story