Pingjian: Raising the bar in public diplomacy - Vanguard News

THE outgoing Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Nigeria, Dr. Zhou Pingjian, would for long be remembered for straddling the Nigeria’s social space, networking diplomacy from its core state to state relation to the public space, bridging gaps in the inter-state relations and building bridges across the broad domain of Nigeria’s socio-cultural and intellectual communities. He looked comfortable, confident and genuinely at home with various segments of Nigerians.

In fostering friendship between Nigerian and Chinese people, Ambassador Zhou Pingjian connected the two governments of the People’s Republic of China and the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the best of their inter-state relations, helping to deliver practical dividends and tangibles of the cooperation, especially to Nigeria.

The Chinese envoy for the last three and half years in Nigeria has visible passion for Nigeria’s industrialisation, believing that the country has what it takes to be the next “Workshop if the World”, as his country has been in the past 40 years.

Through the media, he has offered profound insights to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, FOCAC, and the Belt and Road Initiative, BRI, two major cooperation platforms that Nigeria and other African countries are robustly engaged and thereby, getting Nigerians from different works of life to interrogate the process of bilateral engagements between the two countries.

To further assuage anxieties, he invited relatives, parents and guardians of Nigerian students and others in Wuhan to a public meeting to listen to their concerns and clarify the issues about the conditions of their people, with assurances that the relevant Chinese authorities are taking measures to keep Nigerians and other foreigners safe.

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