Cricket is the most popular sport in Pakistan. Young people can always be seen playing game in the streets and Pakistan’s cricket national team enjoys a world-wide reputation. I am glad to see that the gradual popularity of cricket in Chinese schools which injects more impetus into the people-to-people cultural exchanges between China and Pakistan,” highlighted Dr. Awais Zafar, First Secre-tary, Pakistani Embassy in China while visiting SCO Demonstration Area Experimental Primary in Qingdao, China.
In 2021, Moin ul Haque, Ambassador of Pakistan to China, awarded the “China-Pakistan Qingdao Special Cricket School” to the SCODA Primary School and donated his signature cricket equipment.
The ambassador expressed his hope that more Chi-nese children would appreciate and participate in cricket and enjoy the joy and growth that comes with sports competition.
The children of the SCODA Primary School sang the classic Pakistani song “Beautiful Land” in Urdu to welcome the ambassador and his delegation.
SCODA Experimental Primary School and Pakistan China Center at SCODA have launched in-depth cooperation in building cricket schools with charac-teristics with the key tasks of “promotion of charac-teristic cricket”, “training of cricket coaches”, “es-tablishment of school cricket teams” and “organiza-tion of regional cricket competitions”.
