Chinese premier inaugurates a Bejing-funded Pakistan airport

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has inaugurated a Beijing-funded airport built in restive southwestern Pakistan as he arrived for a regional security meeting in the capital, Islamabad on Monday.

The airport is next to Gwadar Port, the cornerstone project of the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that connects China's Xinjiang region to Pakistan's coast."China will continue to work with Pakistan to uphold the principle of planning together, building together and benefitting together," Li said at the ceremony alongside Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.