On October 26, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Acting Foreign Minister Mutaki of the Afghan Interim Government in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The two sides shook hands and took a group photo at the scene. Mutaki also presented a gift to Wang Yi. Packed in an exquisite gift box, Wang Yi opened it and found that it was a special product of Afghanistan. Pine nuts. Wang Yi immediately smiled and gave Mutaki a thumbs up. In this meeting, Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a promise to Mutaki.
China will continue to lend a helping hand to Afghanistan within its capacity. Facts have proved that China’s commitment has never been just talk. Soon, China took practical action.
This time it happened to be related to the pine nuts in Afghanistan. On October 31st, Taliban official Inamura Danmangani posted on the nine media Twitter that a cargo plane carrying 45 tons of pine nuts was officially flying from Kabul. Taking off to China and Shanghai, this is also the first export trade to China since the Afghan Taliban took power. Regarding the export of pine nuts to China, the Afghan Interim Government has shown an extremely important attitude.