This is the second $6 billion package which Khan has managed to obtain in the last few weeks as Pakistan reeled under severe financial crisis. Earlier during his visit to Saudi Arabia, Riyadh committed $6 billion funding which included $3 billion deferred payment for oil imports.
Pakistan Finance Minister Asad Umar, who is accompanying Pakistan PM, earlier told media in Islamabad that his government's strategy was to seek loans from multiple sources instead of asking the International Monetary Fund (IMF) alone to plug the entire gap in the country's financing needs.
Khan's visit to China evoked considerable interest as it comes in the wake of his past criticism of the $50 billion CPEC projects and remarks by his ministers to cut down some of the projects over debt concern.
Khan's visit to China will also provide an "opportunity" for the two countries to open a "new chapter" of bilateral relations "under the new circumstances," PTI quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang as saying.
(With agency inputs)