Global Times (February 20) quoted Chinese officials as saying China is sending a team of locust extermination experts to Pakistan this week to help the country end the ongoing locust outbreak there. It said China possesses world-leading technologies in locust control, and can provide pesticide and machines that are much needed in Pakistan. Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing in a meeting with Pakistani Minister for National Food Security and Research Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar on February 18, said the Chinese team will set up a targeted solution and deal with this challenge with Pakistan together.  Bakhtiar said China has world-leading technologies in locust control, and he hopes to use Chinese knowledge to deal with the locust outbreak. China's support for Pakistan amid the novel coronavirus outbreak in China showed the deep relationship between the two countries.