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Ye ho kya raha hai? Do Pakistanis really think that the chinese will not take back double/triple/quadruple of the money they have put in this?
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Chinese are idiots when it comes to foreign policy. Their plan is to be hostile against every major economic and military power in the region and in the world.
What exactly will Chinese achive by propping up failed states like North Korea and Pakistan? Will India give up her sovereignty to Chinese because pakis have some new free made in China toys? Will USA leave pacific ocean because North Korea has nukes? If anything these developments will make other countries even more aggressive in their policy.
Remember major part of American dominance is their powerful allies and soft power. Chinese have none of this. Only mindlessly increasing military will make them a world threat not a world leader.
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Yup, corporation is okay but "handing over" your country and expecting them,
"Inshallah, Pakistan ki kismat badalne wali hai",
to change your fate is utter stupidity.
Over that, total cost of CPEC stands around $75 billions, $45 billions for main corridor and rest for infrastructure.
But even out of these billions (paying $30 billions is also impossible for Pak), $34 billions are investments. Who will pay the rest? Obviously a loan, high debt to GDP ratio, falling exports which is even visible today. Can't understand what they are doing.
Seriously, many countries have such corridors but none of them ever gifted their land, be it China to US or India to China and US;
they took tax but Pakistanis simply "gifted".
There has something serious been cooked behind the curtain by Xi that we are yet to know.
I don't guess China to be stupid. When life gives to Lemons, you must always make lemonades out of it and so China has got the country, the Pakistan, who can do "anything" to avoid so called "hegemonic designs" and "imbalance of power" in "South Asia".
Whatever, China has got the way to make their oil supplies through Malacca Strait impregnable.
We must seek some similar project in Gulf & Horn of Africa to protect our oil supplies through Hormuz Strait.
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Indian Navy regularly patrols the IRTC.
I was personally part of a convoy escorted by a Talwar class back in 2014 when the piracy problem was more serious.
I think there is port in Oman as well where Indian Naval Vessels have berthing and refueling rights.
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Oman won't be enough, India needs one in UAE or Saudi Arabia, and other in Somalia, Somaliland or Djibouti.
Rest, assets in Seychelles, Congo and Nigeria must be enough to support it.
Anyway, anybody knows if we have plans to have military bases on artificial islands? It will be a good idea. Currently, India has artificial islands but not for military purposes.
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Yearender: CPEC enters into full implementation with remarkable progress
Source: Xinhua 2016-12-27 17:59:32
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Three years on, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), described by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as a "game changer" for the entire region here, has entered into full implementation in 2016 and remarkable progresses have been achieved.
Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong reiterated on many occasions that 16 early harvest projects, including several power stations, highways and projects related to Gwadar Port, are under construction and tens of thousands of new jobs have been created for local people.
"The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is building a more amicable bond between our two brotherly countries. Our friendly cooperation is ushering in a golden era for greater development," said Sun during the ceremony of installation of a new chandelier at Mazar-e-Quaid, or the Mausoleum of the Founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi on Dec. 17.
Last month, a trade convoy organized by the two countries successfully passed through the western part of Pakistan for the first time from the north to the south, proving the connectivity of local roads and the realization of the concept of "one corridor with multiple passages" under the CPEC.
Meanwhile, Gwadar Port also marked its first export of massive containers to overseas destinations in November, showing that the port's designed handling capacity has been restored.
"Since the commencement of the CPEC, 2016 is the year when we have seen a project completed or start working. In addition to the Gwadar Port operations, Prime Minister Sharif also inaugurated a number of others projects in the country, especially in some routes in the western part of the CPEC. There are at least 39 projects, the majority of them related to energy, where obvious progress has been seen during 2016," Saeed Chaudhry, director of the Islamabad Council for International Affairs, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Chaudhry's remarks include the second phase of upgrading the Karakorum Highway from Havelian to Thakot and the highway linking Pakistan's largest cities of Karachi and Lahore. Both of the two highways have been smoothly implemented and for the former, the Abbottabad Tunnel construction project has begun and seen substantive progress.
In terms of the energy field, China is helping boost green, low-carbon and sustainable energy development to address power shortage in Pakistan.
Several wind power farms and hydropower stations are under construction and the eye-catching Port Qasim coal-fired power project in Karachi, which adopts a costly method to lower the temperature of the seawater used to cool the generating units in order to prevent them from heating up water temperature around the coast, is expected to be completed ahead of schedule and play its role in addressing Pakistan's electricity shortage.
"We are not coming only for big projects, we are here to help countries, such as Pakistan, to plan and design their future energy development blueprints so as to address problems they are facing and to make the projects a reality," Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corporation of China, which is charged with the construction of the Port Qasim coal-fire power project, told Xinhua earlier.
According to Bilal Khan, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Ltd., due to the enhanced infrastructure such as roads and railways brought by the CPEC, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth should increase from around 4.7 percent last year to around 6 percent by 2019, and stay around the same level for 2020 in the southern Asian country.
"The CPEC itself for Pakistan at a bare minimum offers a significant opportunity for the country to address its supply side constraints such as weak foreign capital inflow," Bilal Khan told Xinhua earlier, adding that the CPEC will attract foreign direct investment from both private and public sectors to help keep a balanced current account in Pakistan against a backdrop of rebounding oil prices.
"Before the CPEC, Pakistan's economy was feeble and stagnant, and investors, even ones of Pakistan origin were reluctant to invest in it, but right now the economic indicators of Pakistan have turned positive, investors from around the world are flocking to Pakistan, and the country's economy has been given new life and is booming and full of future prospects. Pakistan's main issue is shortage of revenue and unemployment, but the CPEC will provide solutions for the both," Chaudhry also pointed out.
The professor also said that further afield, from Russia to central Asian states to Sri Lanka, the CPEC will bring a change to the countries' economies and to the lives of more than 3 billion people living in this region.
"The project has already become the center of global attention, especially in our region," concluded the professor.
Source: Xinhua 2016-12-27 17:59:32
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Three years on, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), described by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as a "game changer" for the entire region here, has entered into full implementation in 2016 and remarkable progresses have been achieved.
Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong reiterated on many occasions that 16 early harvest projects, including several power stations, highways and projects related to Gwadar Port, are under construction and tens of thousands of new jobs have been created for local people.
"The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is building a more amicable bond between our two brotherly countries. Our friendly cooperation is ushering in a golden era for greater development," said Sun during the ceremony of installation of a new chandelier at Mazar-e-Quaid, or the Mausoleum of the Founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi on Dec. 17.
Last month, a trade convoy organized by the two countries successfully passed through the western part of Pakistan for the first time from the north to the south, proving the connectivity of local roads and the realization of the concept of "one corridor with multiple passages" under the CPEC.
Meanwhile, Gwadar Port also marked its first export of massive containers to overseas destinations in November, showing that the port's designed handling capacity has been restored.
"Since the commencement of the CPEC, 2016 is the year when we have seen a project completed or start working. In addition to the Gwadar Port operations, Prime Minister Sharif also inaugurated a number of others projects in the country, especially in some routes in the western part of the CPEC. There are at least 39 projects, the majority of them related to energy, where obvious progress has been seen during 2016," Saeed Chaudhry, director of the Islamabad Council for International Affairs, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Chaudhry's remarks include the second phase of upgrading the Karakorum Highway from Havelian to Thakot and the highway linking Pakistan's largest cities of Karachi and Lahore. Both of the two highways have been smoothly implemented and for the former, the Abbottabad Tunnel construction project has begun and seen substantive progress.
In terms of the energy field, China is helping boost green, low-carbon and sustainable energy development to address power shortage in Pakistan.
Several wind power farms and hydropower stations are under construction and the eye-catching Port Qasim coal-fired power project in Karachi, which adopts a costly method to lower the temperature of the seawater used to cool the generating units in order to prevent them from heating up water temperature around the coast, is expected to be completed ahead of schedule and play its role in addressing Pakistan's electricity shortage.
"We are not coming only for big projects, we are here to help countries, such as Pakistan, to plan and design their future energy development blueprints so as to address problems they are facing and to make the projects a reality," Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corporation of China, which is charged with the construction of the Port Qasim coal-fire power project, told Xinhua earlier.
According to Bilal Khan, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Ltd., due to the enhanced infrastructure such as roads and railways brought by the CPEC, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth should increase from around 4.7 percent last year to around 6 percent by 2019, and stay around the same level for 2020 in the southern Asian country.
"The CPEC itself for Pakistan at a bare minimum offers a significant opportunity for the country to address its supply side constraints such as weak foreign capital inflow," Bilal Khan told Xinhua earlier, adding that the CPEC will attract foreign direct investment from both private and public sectors to help keep a balanced current account in Pakistan against a backdrop of rebounding oil prices.
"Before the CPEC, Pakistan's economy was feeble and stagnant, and investors, even ones of Pakistan origin were reluctant to invest in it, but right now the economic indicators of Pakistan have turned positive, investors from around the world are flocking to Pakistan, and the country's economy has been given new life and is booming and full of future prospects. Pakistan's main issue is shortage of revenue and unemployment, but the CPEC will provide solutions for the both," Chaudhry also pointed out.
The professor also said that further afield, from Russia to central Asian states to Sri Lanka, the CPEC will bring a change to the countries' economies and to the lives of more than 3 billion people living in this region.
"The project has already become the center of global attention, especially in our region," concluded the professor.
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Pakistan’s water security made part of CPEC framework
By Shahbaz Rana
Published: December 30, 2016
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif meets Chinese President Xi Jinping. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Thursday decided to make water security a part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework amid threats by India to review its position on the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.
The decision to exploit full hydel potential of Pakistan was taken during the sixth meeting of the Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) of the CPEC which was held in Beijing. The JCC is the highest policy making forum of the CPEC.
The JCC also decided, in principle, to make the mass transit projects of all four provinces part of the CPEC. These projects will be formally made part of the CPEC after their financial and technical vetting by Working Group on Transport in February next year.
For development of hydroelectric projects on the Indus River, particularly construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam, the JCC on Thursday constituted a group, said Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal after the meeting. The planning ministry released the video of his statement.
China says willing to promote CPEC with Pakistan
“Pakistan may face a very severe water crisis and for economic and food security of the country, the immediate construction of Diamer-Bhasha is crucial,” he said. If the Diamer-Bhasha dam becomes part of the CPEC, it will be a landmark achievement, he added.
For more than two decades, Pakistan has been trying to construct the Diamer-Bhasha dam that has an estimated cost of $14 billion. Due to opposition by India, both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have refused to lend money under one pretext or another.
After the rise in tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) in recent months, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had threatened to cut Pakistan’s water supply. He has managed to influence the WB that recently paused the process of playing mediator, which it is bound to play under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, according to experts on the accord. Chinese help to secure Pakistan’s water rights will be seen as a major development, according to them.
CPEC: Business forum says private sector must be taken onboard
The Indus River is a source of more than 17 gigawatts of hydropower capacity in India and Pakistan and feeds the Indus Basin Irrigation System, the largest contiguous irrigation network in the world. Pakistan is particularly dependent on the Indus, as more than 90% of its agricultural production comes from this basin.
Ahsan Iqbal said that the sixth JCC has taken the CPEC to the next level, which will ensure Pakistan’s industrialisation and inclusion of all the provinces.
The minister said that the JCC approved to make mass transit projects of four provinces part of the CPEC framework. He said that these projects are Orange Line metro project Lahore, Karachi Circular Railway, Peshawar Greater Circular Railway and Quetta Circular Railway.
Their inclusion in the CPEC will ensure huge tax exemptions and availability of finances for execution. The inclusion of these projects into CPEC is a gift for the people of provincial capitals, said the planning minister.
The planning minister said that the JCC approved to construct one industrial park in each province, Islamabad Capital Territory and in special areas of the country. He said that the Chinese experts would visit Pakistan in February to review their feasibility. The JCC also approved to make three more infrastructure projects part of the CPEC. These are Dera Ismail Kha-Zhob road project, Baseema-Khuzdar road project and a missing link of the Karakoram Highway project.
CPEC: from knowledge to connectivity
The minister said the JCC also decided to start construction work on Matiari-Lahore Transmission Line project. He said the new projects that the provinces had proposed for inclusion into the CPEC have been recommended to the respective working groups for their financial and technical evaluations.
He said it has also been agreed that the Gwadar City Master plan will be completed within one year. The minister said that China also agreed to transfer knowledge in five areas, including water resources management, urban development, small and medium sized industries and climate change.
The Peshawar circular rail project has been accepted as part of the CPEC and the working group will approve it in next meeting, said K-P Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak after the JCC meeting. Khattak went to Beijing to attend the meeting. He said that K-P’s projects would be approved in February next year. He added that the JCC approved to make one industrial park part of the CPEC while two more will be approved next year.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 30th, 2016.
By Shahbaz Rana
Published: December 30, 2016
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif meets Chinese President Xi Jinping. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Thursday decided to make water security a part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework amid threats by India to review its position on the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.
The decision to exploit full hydel potential of Pakistan was taken during the sixth meeting of the Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) of the CPEC which was held in Beijing. The JCC is the highest policy making forum of the CPEC.
The JCC also decided, in principle, to make the mass transit projects of all four provinces part of the CPEC. These projects will be formally made part of the CPEC after their financial and technical vetting by Working Group on Transport in February next year.
For development of hydroelectric projects on the Indus River, particularly construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam, the JCC on Thursday constituted a group, said Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal after the meeting. The planning ministry released the video of his statement.
China says willing to promote CPEC with Pakistan
“Pakistan may face a very severe water crisis and for economic and food security of the country, the immediate construction of Diamer-Bhasha is crucial,” he said. If the Diamer-Bhasha dam becomes part of the CPEC, it will be a landmark achievement, he added.
For more than two decades, Pakistan has been trying to construct the Diamer-Bhasha dam that has an estimated cost of $14 billion. Due to opposition by India, both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have refused to lend money under one pretext or another.
After the rise in tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) in recent months, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had threatened to cut Pakistan’s water supply. He has managed to influence the WB that recently paused the process of playing mediator, which it is bound to play under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, according to experts on the accord. Chinese help to secure Pakistan’s water rights will be seen as a major development, according to them.
CPEC: Business forum says private sector must be taken onboard
The Indus River is a source of more than 17 gigawatts of hydropower capacity in India and Pakistan and feeds the Indus Basin Irrigation System, the largest contiguous irrigation network in the world. Pakistan is particularly dependent on the Indus, as more than 90% of its agricultural production comes from this basin.
Ahsan Iqbal said that the sixth JCC has taken the CPEC to the next level, which will ensure Pakistan’s industrialisation and inclusion of all the provinces.
The minister said that the JCC approved to make mass transit projects of four provinces part of the CPEC framework. He said that these projects are Orange Line metro project Lahore, Karachi Circular Railway, Peshawar Greater Circular Railway and Quetta Circular Railway.
Their inclusion in the CPEC will ensure huge tax exemptions and availability of finances for execution. The inclusion of these projects into CPEC is a gift for the people of provincial capitals, said the planning minister.
The planning minister said that the JCC approved to construct one industrial park in each province, Islamabad Capital Territory and in special areas of the country. He said that the Chinese experts would visit Pakistan in February to review their feasibility. The JCC also approved to make three more infrastructure projects part of the CPEC. These are Dera Ismail Kha-Zhob road project, Baseema-Khuzdar road project and a missing link of the Karakoram Highway project.
CPEC: from knowledge to connectivity
The minister said the JCC also decided to start construction work on Matiari-Lahore Transmission Line project. He said the new projects that the provinces had proposed for inclusion into the CPEC have been recommended to the respective working groups for their financial and technical evaluations.
He said it has also been agreed that the Gwadar City Master plan will be completed within one year. The minister said that China also agreed to transfer knowledge in five areas, including water resources management, urban development, small and medium sized industries and climate change.
The Peshawar circular rail project has been accepted as part of the CPEC and the working group will approve it in next meeting, said K-P Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak after the JCC meeting. Khattak went to Beijing to attend the meeting. He said that K-P’s projects would be approved in February next year. He added that the JCC approved to make one industrial park part of the CPEC while two more will be approved next year.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 30th, 2016.
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China to build $1.5 billion power line across Pakistan
By Reuters
Published: December 30, 2016
ISLAMABAD: State Grid of China will help build a 4,000 MW power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at $1.5 billion, a statement issued by the PM House said on Friday, the latest in a series of Chinese investments in the country.
The high-capacity transmission line will be the first of its kind in Pakistan and will link Matiari town, near a new power station, to Lahore city, a key link in transmission infrastructure.
An agreement on the project was signed on Thursday in Beijing between Mohammad Younus Dagha, secretary of water and power, and Shu Yinbiao, chairman of State Grid Corporation of China, the statement added.
Addressing electricity crisis: 436 power projects worth Rs372m initiated in DG Khan
Construction will begin in January, and should take about 20 months, said a spokesperson for the prime minister’s office.
The project is the latest in a series of big Chinese investments, most of which fall under a planned $55 billion worth of projects for a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The corridor is a combination of power and infrastructure projects that link western China to Pakistan’s Gwadar.
Chinese consortium wins bid for 40% stake in Pakistan Stock Exchange
Other Chinese investment in Pakistan has included the acquisition of a majority stake by Shanghai Electric of the K-Electric power production and distribution company for $1.8 billion.
Last week, a Chinese-led consortium bought a 40 percent stake of the Pakistan Stock Exchange for an estimated $85 million.
By Reuters
Published: December 30, 2016
ISLAMABAD: State Grid of China will help build a 4,000 MW power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at $1.5 billion, a statement issued by the PM House said on Friday, the latest in a series of Chinese investments in the country.
The high-capacity transmission line will be the first of its kind in Pakistan and will link Matiari town, near a new power station, to Lahore city, a key link in transmission infrastructure.
An agreement on the project was signed on Thursday in Beijing between Mohammad Younus Dagha, secretary of water and power, and Shu Yinbiao, chairman of State Grid Corporation of China, the statement added.
Addressing electricity crisis: 436 power projects worth Rs372m initiated in DG Khan
Construction will begin in January, and should take about 20 months, said a spokesperson for the prime minister’s office.
The project is the latest in a series of big Chinese investments, most of which fall under a planned $55 billion worth of projects for a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The corridor is a combination of power and infrastructure projects that link western China to Pakistan’s Gwadar.
Chinese consortium wins bid for 40% stake in Pakistan Stock Exchange
Other Chinese investment in Pakistan has included the acquisition of a majority stake by Shanghai Electric of the K-Electric power production and distribution company for $1.8 billion.
Last week, a Chinese-led consortium bought a 40 percent stake of the Pakistan Stock Exchange for an estimated $85 million.
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Chinese to outnumber Balochistan natives by 2048: FPCCI report
By: ANI | Published: December 29, 2016 5:08 PM
Gwadar is the ultimate destination of the CPEC while Balochistan is the least-populated province of Pakistan with rich natural resources. (Source: Reuters)
By: ANI | Published: December 29, 2016 5:08 PM
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Chinese to outnumber Balochistan natives by 2048: FPCCI report
By: ANI | Published: December 29, 2016 5:08 PM
Gwadar is the ultimate destination of the CPEC while Balochistan is the least-populated province of Pakistan with rich natural resources. (Source: Reuters)
Chinese Men Outnumber Women by 33 Million .......so what
will so many extra men do ?? they will move to Pakistaan& get married to Paki Girls .
and they will do it within next 10 years .
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Power plant,water pipeline- you name it,every new project in Pakistan is part of CPEC.This is Rothschild on steroids
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Pakistan - the next super power! Lol!
Which pills do these Chinese and their pet poodles, the porkis swallow?
I think its the Orange pill !!
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You forgot Pak is deprived for S** so they might go for Grey pill first..
Second Pink pill to turn into John Abraham to attract more women.
Third Yellow pill, to check anyone is intrested in straight,group, g***, l****, so on...
Fourth Red Pill to watch **** till their hands pain and had multiple....
Finally Orange Pill to fantasize as their body is in no position to support their thoughts
Second Pink pill to turn into John Abraham to attract more women.
Third Yellow pill, to check anyone is intrested in straight,group, g***, l****, so on...
Fourth Red Pill to watch **** till their hands pain and had multiple....
Finally Orange Pill to fantasize as their body is in no position to support their thoughts
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Pakis can forget blue pill as no of theirs qualified for Olympics...Pakistan - the next super power! Lol!
Which pills do these Chinese and their pet poodles, the porkis swallow?
I think its the Orange pill !!
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Your Foreign direct investment decline 40% and still you are expecting 4 bn USD investment? good luck.CPEC plan: Govt anticipates $4b investment in three industrial zones
By Imran Rana
Published: December 27, 2016
FAISALABAD: The government is expecting $4 billion as fresh investment in three industrial zones that will be set up in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) routes, said a senior official of Faisalabad Industrial Estate Development and Management Company.
In the first phase, the Faisalabad Industrial Estate, Sheikhupura Industrial Estate and Haripur Industrial Estate are expected to fetch over Rs400 billion or nearly $4 billion investment in setting up factories and purchasing land, said Faisalabad Industrial Estate Development and Management Company (FIEDMC) Chief Operating Officer Aamir Saleemi while talking to The Express Tribune.
In the Faisalabad Industrial Zones alone as many as 650 new factories are expected to be set up, he added. Recently, a company has purchased land at a cost of Rs1 billion for setting up a factory, said Saleemi.
The Punjab government has proposed Sheikhupura and Faisalabad cities for setting up these industrial units in the first phase of setting up Special Economic Zones. The Joint Cooperation Committee of the CPEC that is meeting in Beijing from Wednesday would take up these proposals, according to officials of Punjab government.
After the first three years of planning and approvals, the CPEC has started taking shape, which suggests that the project’s impact will not be limited to the $46 billion Chinese investment in energy and infrastructure projects.
The investment in the industry is the solution to uplift the economy and reduce the unemployment in the country. Saleemi said that recently six major Chinese companies have signed an agreement with FIEDMC authority to invest in Faisalabad Industrial Estate. In the first step, they have purchased land to install their units, adding that mostly new investment is being made in engineering, food and processing sectors. In the first step, they will invest $150 million, he added.
Saleemi said that after the inauguration of the Gwadar Port the international image of the country has improved. “The CPEC has brought new investment and the rest of the world wants to trade with Pakistan,” he claimed.
He underlined the importance of the textile sector in the overall national economy and said that it is contributing 65% towards earning foreign exchange. Similarly, this sector is also providing jobs to 35 to 40% of the total labour force.
He said that taxes play an instrumental role in running the state affairs in addition to undertaking development projects. He said that for the new investors who are investing in these estates, the company is offering ten years tax free environment. The imported machinery is also exempted from payment of duties.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 28th, 2016.
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If this is the status of CPEC than I regrate its progress. My company's private port is amny times better than and bigger than this.
