China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) | Updates & Discussions

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This is what we all waiting for, rain of chinese trucks on Cpec highways

 

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With a new Chinese loan, CPEC is now worth $51.5bn


ISLAMABAD: Despite Indian conspiracies, the size of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been increased to more than $51.5 billion after China and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) agreed to lend $8bn to upgrade the main railway line from Karachi to Peshawar, according to a federal minister.

Addressing a news briefing upon his return from a week-long visit to China, Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal said Beijing has agreed to provide Pakistan with a $5.5bn concessional loan to upgrade and modernise the Karachi-Lahore main railway line called ML-1.

In addition, ADB will extend financing of $2.5bn for the Lahore-Peshawar railway track, he said.

“Both loans will carry less than 2 per cent interest rate. Both are concessional loans,” he said. However, he declined to discuss specifics of the lending programme, saying the Economic Affairs Division is still busy finalising the terms and conditions.

He said the original $46bn CPEC included about $3.56bn financing for the railway network, which has now increased to $8bn. “This is ad add-on” to the original CPEC, he explained.

He said the Karachi-Peshawar railway line processed 75pc of the passenger and cargo traffic, but its efficiency has dropped to 60-80 kilometres per hour. That is because of a continuous deterioration during the long tenure of former president Pervez Musharraf, he said, adding that the track, signalling system and bridges were in bad shape.

The refurbishment and upgradation of the main line will cost $8bn and take five to six years to complete. This will revive its efficiency to 120-160 kilometres per hour. It will be upgraded in a manner that it will accommodate fast-moving trains, reduce the cost of production and increase the competitiveness of Pakistani products.

The main line will then be expanded in the next phase to link Gwadar with Peshawar and then Havelian, Abbottabad, with Khunjerab.

Mr Iqbal said the CPEC has three phases and four major areas, namely Gwadar Port’s development, energy projects, road networks and industrial cooperation. The short-term, medium-term and long-term projects will complete by 2020, 2025 and 2030, respectively.

At present, work is in progress in the first three areas of infrastructure development, which will enable the two nations to push for industrial cooperation, he said.

Mr Iqbal said both sides agreed to convene the 6th Joint Cooperation Council (JCC) of the two countries in the last week of November. Before the JCC, working groups on transport, Gwadar Port and industrial cooperation will meet next month to firm up the implementation plan.

He said the long-term industrial cooperation has been finalised in Pakistan in consultation with all provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. He said the four chief ministers belonging to different political parties have supported the CPEC that will be funded through the public-sector development programme, Chinese financing and funding by multilateral agencies.

Responding to a question, Mr Iqbal said some people have created misconceptions about the CPEC, adding that the federal government has invited the leadership of the Awami National Party for a briefing next week to address their concerns.

India has launched a massive campaign in the media to mislead people about the CPEC, he said. He noted that CPEC projects of about $18bn are currently in the implementation phase while another $17bn worth of projects are in the active pipeline. This means $35bn worth of projects have already been energised in just two years.

 

[Danish saleem]

. Its amazing how much gossip people in Pakistan believe in and ignore all facts!!

Here, I'd like to highlight the credit so its given to where its due.
- The CPEC is an example of Pakistan's foreign relations
- The Russians trying to work with Pakistan is also another example (both in defense, steel and mineral exploration, production, buying and selling).
- Qatar working on putting 100,000 Pakistanis to work is also an example of foreign relations at work.
- Pakistan buying cheap electricity and starting mutual trade with the Central Russian states is also a sign of foreign relations.
- The largest stock exchanges putting Pakistani market in focus and investing billions into Pakistan are due to foreign relations and improvement of previous relations where Pakistan was considered a failed state just three years ago!!

The following threads clearly show the foreign efforts that are paying up huge dividends to Pakistan as a nation. Who would've thought that Pakistan will be so hyped about in the international market for foreign investments? All of these didn't just happen due to a "miracle", someone from the current administration actually did a LOT of work to change Pakistan the way it was known just three years ago!!! Who would've thought the images presented in the following threads would actually take place in New York city. The current administration took a "failed state" and turned it into one of the "top growing economies" and the largest stock exchange understand and appreciate how much work has been done. Read the following if you haven't already.

https://defence.pk/threads/pakistan-day-celebrated-in-nasdaq.446078/



https://defence.pk/threads/world-ap...lay-pm-pak-at-new-york-stock-exchange.446617/

your know what, u will be going to called Noora soon,

 

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Chinese envoy reassures equal benefits of CPEC to Pakistan’s all regions

Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong reassured that Pakistan’s all regions will be equally benefited from the China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC).

In his remarks at the reception held here last night, celebrating the 67th Anniversary of the Founding of China, he said the CPEC has made significant progress. Up to now, among the 30 early harvest projects, 16 have been completed or are under construction, with an investment of nearly 14 billion US dollars. These projects have created then of thousands of job opportunities for the local people and brought great vitality to the development of Pakistan.

The Chinese Embassy has hosted a grand reception to celebrate the national, falling on Oct. 1. Nearly 1000 people from all walks of life including senior military and civilian officials, besides a large number of diplomats, attended the impressive reception that includes a performance by the Chinese artists. Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq was the chief guest.

Prominent dignitaries include governor Punjab Rafiq Rajwana, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Minister of state Frontier region Lt. Gen. (Retd) Abdul Qadir Baluch, deputy chairman Senate Abdul Ghafoor Haidry, Chief of Jamaat-i-Islami senator Sirajul Haq, former interior minister Rehman Malik,, PPP’s leaders Sherry Reman and Latif Khoso, Chairman NAB Ch. Qamar Zaman and senator Mushahid Hussain Syed.

At the outset, national anthems of Pakistan and China were played and a cake was also cut by the dignitaries present on the stage. On this occasion, he also introduced some representatives of both Chinese and Pakistani technicians and engineers who are actively engaged in the implementation of various CPEC’s projects.

Speaker National Assembly in his address reciprocated the warm sentiments of the Chinese ambassador, who he said made dedicated efforts working day and night to carry forward their time-tested and deep-rooted friendship. The two countries, he said are moving ahead with meaningful cooperation in all fields of mutual interest. He lauded the Chinese leadership concept of one road, one belt and said it is a great to hope for a better future tomorrow. He reiterated Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s commitment to keeping their relationship ever-growing that helps to improve living conditions of their people.

The ambassador further said, “Like all the other projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, CPEC is an open and inclusive cooperation concept. It is neither exclusive nor against any third party. It is by no means a zero-sum game. It will make the people of this region benefit from connectivity, industrial cooperation and cultural exchanges. It will play an active role in promoting the development and prosperity of the region.

The Chinese people always advocate high morality and honour commitments. We emphasise hard work and believe that actions out-speak words. What is now under construction are just early harvest projects of CPEC”, he added.

Ambassador Sun Weidong said he was convinced that in the near future, CPEC will attract more investment, bring more business opportunities and promote more exchanges just like a huge magnet. We will witness the changes and benefit from the dividends brought by CPEC.

He thanked the Government of Pakistan for promoting the construction of CPEC. I want to thank the Pakistani military and law enforcement agencies for creating a safe environment for the Chinese people and institutions in Pakistan. I also want to thank the political parties, think-tanks, media and all the friends for your valuable support to the China-Pakistan friendship and cooperation.

About the China’s fast economic growth, the ambassador said, during the past 30 years, China has achieved rapid economic growth and sustained livelihood improvement. China has been the world’s second largest economy since 2010 and created a miracle of development by “China speed”. We pursue peaceful development. We maintain that all countries, big or small, are all equal. We advocate the opening-up strategy of mutual benefits and win-win cooperation. We develop friendship and cooperation with all countries based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence. We have made our contribution to the world peace and development.

He said he was convinced that, under the guidance of our leaders and with the joint efforts of both countries, the road of China-Pakistan friendship will be getting broader and brighter in the days to come. Let’s join hands towards our common dreams and make unremitting efforts to achieve the goal of the Community of China-Pakistan Shared Destiny at an early date.

 

[cleverrider]

your know what, u will be going to called Noora soon,

wtf he is a known noora and so are you


On topic, Hopefully Punjabi establishment and Ganja brothers will give fair share to other smaller provinces as this cannot be hidden for long. Outcomes will be in no one’s interest but will be in direct effect of the above.

 

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The Eurasian Century Is Now Unstoppable

The transfer of the geopolitical center of gravity to Eurasia is something the West will have to get used to

By F. William Engdah

October 07, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "NEO" - I recently returned from a fascinating two week speaking tour in China. The occasion was the international premier of my newest book, One Belt, One Road–China and the New Eurasian Century. In the course of my visit I was invited by China’s Northwest University in Xi’an to give a lecture and seminar on the present global political and economic situation in the context of China’s New Economic Silk Road as the One Belt, One Road project is often called. What I’ve seen in my many visits to China, and have studied about the entirety of this enormously impressive international infrastructure project convinces me that a Eurasian Century at this point is unstoppable.

The idiotic wars of the Washington war-hawks and their military industry–in Syria, in Ukraine, Libya, Iraq and now the South China Sea provocations against China–are not going to stop what is now clearly the most impressive and economically altering project in more than a century.

The term “American Century” was triumphantly proclaimed in a famous editorial in Life magazine in 1941 in the early phase of World War II, before the United States had even entered the war, to describe the system publisher Henry Luce saw dominating the postwar world after the fall of the rival British Empire.

The American Century has lasted a mere seven decades if we date from the end of the war. Its record has been one of dismal failure on balance. The industrial base of the United States, the predominant leading industrial nation and leading scientific innovator, today is a hollowed, rotted shell with once-booming cities like Detroit or Philadelphia or Los Angeles now burned-out ghettos of unemployed and homeless.

The Federal Debt of the United States, owing to the endless wars its Presidents engage in, as well as the fruitless bailouts of Wall Street banks and Government Sponsored Enterprises like Fannie Mae, is well over 103% of GDP at an astonishing $19.5 trillion, or more than $163,000 per taxpaying American and Washington is adding to the debt this year at near $600 billion. Countries like China and Russia are moving away from subsidizing that debt at a record pace.

America’s economic basic infrastructure–bridges, sewer and water treatment plants, electric grid, railways, highways–have been neglected for more than four decades for a variety of reasons. The American Society of Civil Engineers recently estimated that gross domestic product will be reduced by $4 trillion between 2016 and 2025 because of lost business sales, rising costs and reduced incomes if the country continues to underinvest in its infrastructure. That is on top of the fact that they estimate the country at present urgently requires new infrastructure investment of $3.3 trillion by the coming decade just to renew.

Yet US states and cities are not able to finance such an investment in the future in the present debt situation, nor is the debt-choked Federal Government, so long as a cartel of corrupt brain-dead Wall Street banks and financial funds hold America to ransom. This is the sunset for the American Century, a poorly disguised imperial experiment in hubris and arrogance by a gaggle of boring old patriarchs like David Rockefeller and his friends on Wall Street and in the military industry. It is the starkest contrast to what is going on to the east, across all Eurasia today.

Flowing the Thought to Transform

The Eurasian Century is the name I give to the economic emergence of the countries contiguous from China across Central Asia, Russia, Belarus, Iran and potentially Turkey. They are being integrally linked through the largest public infrastructure projects in modern history, in fact the most ambitious ever, largely concentrated on the 2013 initiative by Chinese President Xi Jinping called the One Belt, One Road initiative or OBOR. The project and its implications for Europe and the rest of the world economy have been so far greeted in the west with a stone silence that defies explanation.

It’s been now three years that have transpired since then-new Chinese President Xi Jinping made one of his first foreign visits to Kazakhstan where he discussed the idea of building a vast, modern network of high-speed train lines crossing the vast Eurasian land space from the Pacific coast of China and Russia through Central Asia into Iran, into the states of the Eurasian Economic Union, principally Russia and potentially on to the select states of the European Union. That initial proposal was unveiled in detail last year by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s economic planning organization, and the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Commerce.

It’s a useful point to look now more closely at what has transpired to date. It reveals most impressive developments, more because the development process is creative and organic. The great project is no simple blueprint made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and then simply imposed, top down, across the so-far 60 countries of Eurasia and South East Asia.

An international conference was recently held in Xi’an, origin of the ancient version of One Belt, One Road, namely the Silk Road. The purpose of the international gathering was to review what has so far taken place. It’s fascinating, notably, in the care that’s being taken by China to do it in a different way, as indications so far are, different from the way American Robber Barons like Cornelius Vanderbilt, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould or Russell Sage built rail monopolies and deluded and defrauded investors with railroad monopolies more than a century ago.

The seminar, titled the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Shared Memory and Common Development, on September 26th, brought together over 400 participants from more than 30 countries including government officials, universities, corporations, think tanks and media.

A key role is being played by Renmin University of China’s Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies to identify progress and problems of the OBOR project. Their report in Xi’an presented principles underlying the OBOR international project: It adheres to the principles of the UN Charter; it is completely open for new participant nations to cooperate; it will follow market rules and seek mutual benefit of participating countries.

Those are noble words. What’s more interesting is the flow process underway to realize such words and to build the mammoth game-changing infrastructure.

Notably, China’s Xi Jinping decided to encourage input from sources other than the state central planning agency or the Communist Party for the complex OBOR. He encouraged creation of private and independent think-tanks to become a source of new creative ideas and approaches. Today there is a Chinese Think Tank Cooperation Alliance group coordinating efforts around OBOR headed by the dean of the Renmin University. In turn they partner with think tanks along the OBOR route including think tanks in Iran, Turkey, India, Nepal, Kazakhstan and other countries.

There will be two main routes of the OBOR. On land there are several routes or corridors in work. The Initiative will focus on jointly building what is being called a new Eurasian Land Bridge from China via Kazakhstan on to Rotterdam. Other OBOR land rail corridors include developing China-Mongolia-Russia, China-Central Asia-West Asia, China-Pakistan, Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar, and China-Indochina Peninsula economic corridors.vThis is huge.

It will build on international transport routes, relying on core cities along the OBOR route and using key economic industrial parks as “cooperation platforms.” At sea, the Initiative will focus on jointly building smooth, secure and efficient transport routes connecting major sea ports along the “Belt and Road” including modern upgraded super port construction that will link present China ports at Haikou and Fujian with Kuala Lumpur’s port in Malaysia at the Malacca Strait passage, Calcutta in India, Nairobi in Kenya and via the Suez Canal to Athens and beyond. Crucial is that land and sea parts of OBOR are seen as one whole circulatory system or flow of trade.

The OBOR Initiative will link key Eurasian ports with interior rail and pipeline infrastructure in a way not before seen

To date China has signed memoranda of understanding with 56 countries and regional organizations regarding OBOR. Since his initial proposal in 2013, President Xi Jinping has personally visited 37 countries to discuss implementation of OBOR. China Railway Group and China Communications Construction Company have signed contracts for key routes and ports in 26 countries. Power plants, electricity transmission facilities and oil and gas pipelines, covering 19 countries along the “Belt and Road” in some 40 energy projects have begun. China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile are speeding up cross-border transmission projects in countries along the “Belt and Road” to expand international telecommunicationinfrastructure.

Already, taking the full sea and land routes of OBOR, some $3 trillion of China trade since June 2013 has flowed over the route, more than a quarter of China’s total trade volume. To date China has also invested more than $51 billion in the countries along the present OBOR route. The new land rail routes will greatly reduce transportation costs across Eurasia, enable formerly isolated regions to connect efficiently to sea and land markets and ignite tremendous new economic growth across Eurasia.

The effects of the OBOR are already beginning to appear. Earlier this year an Iranian container ship arrived at Qinzhou Port in China with 978 containers from several countries along the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road opening the first shipping route linking the Middle East and the Beibu Gulf or Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnamese. In February 2016 a container train with Chinese goods took only 14 days to complete the 5,900 mile (9,500km) journey from China’s eastern Zhejiang province through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. That was 30 days shorter than the sea voyage from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, according to the head of the Iranian railway company. China and Iran, now formally part of the OBOR, have targeted bilateral trade, none in US dollars by the way, to exceed $600 billion in the coming decade.

China is presently in negotiations with 28 countries China is in talks with 28 countries including Russia, on high-speed rail projects, China’s train maker, China CNR reports.

It includes a major joint China-Russia $15 billion high-speed Kazan to Moscow line. The 770 kilometers of track between Moscow and Russia’s Tatarstan capital, Kazan, will cut time for the journey from 12 hours now to just 3.5 hours. China has agreed to invest $6 billion in the project which would become a part of a $100 billion high-speed railway between Moscow and Beijing.

Notably, for the new high-speed track being laid, China is developing a new generation of trains capable of reaching speeds of 400 kilometers per hour. And the new trains will solve the costly rail gauge switching problem between China rails and Russian. Trains in Russia run on a 1520mm track, compared to the narrower 1435mm track used in Europe and China. Jia Limin, the head of China’s high-speed rail innovation program told China Daily that, “The train… will have wheels that can be adjusted to fit various gauges on other countries’ tracks, compared with trains now that need to have their wheels changed before entering foreign systems.” Given its strategy of building thousands of kilometers of high-speed railways and developing its domestic Chinese rail sock manufacture as well as other rail technology, China today is the world’s leading producer of rail technology.

Financing the moving

Impressive is that China has secured capital commitment for the OBOR from various sources including the China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank of China, the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the BRICS New Development Bank and other sources including its Silk Road Fund to finance the huge undertaking. The Silk Road Fund has posted $40 billion to fund the OBOR projects. So far close to a quarter trillion US dollars of ready money and another half trillion in supranational institutional working capital is reasonably within reach.

The Western doomsday reports of China’s economy going down the tubes are simply either self-serving propaganda of hedge funds or speculators or fed by lack of understanding of the profound transformation in the entire structure of not only China’s but all Eurasia’s economy through the One Belt One Road initiative. China is undergoing a major transformation from a cheap-labor screwdriver assembly nation to a high-value-added high-tech manufacturer.

Geopolitical transformation

The One Belt, One Road initiative of Xi Jinping and the Eurasian partners, especially Russia, also has strategic dimensions of major import. The construction of new infrastructure corridors spanning across the Eurasian landmass in the form of highways, railways, industrial parks, and oil and gas pipelines, OBOR is connecting for the first time in the modern era landlocked regions of hinterland China and Russia and Central Asia republics with the sea ports. Linking key Eurasian industrial hubs to ports with efficient transportation will revolutionize connectivity of hinterland industrial products and raw materials of every kind. The Russian and Eurasian lands, including China, contain perhaps the richest untapped concentration of every raw material known.

The One Belt, One Road also includes oil and gas pipeline transportation corridors. In January 2015 the Myanmar-China Pipeline project, 2400 km long, was completed, linking Myanmar’s deep-water port of Kyaukphyu on Maday Island in the Bay of Bengal with Kunming in Yunnan province in southeast China near Myanmar’s border. It’s a joint project of the China Development Bank and Myanmar Foreign Investment Bank. The new pipeline allows China to import up to 400,000 barrels a day of Middle East oil over a route 1100 km shorter than the previous Malacca Strait sea route, reducing time to reach the large industrial hub city of Kunming by 30%, major economic gains, and avoiding the strategic chokepoint of the Malacca Strait where the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet dominates.

Previously, 80% of Chinese oil and gas imports crossed the Malacca straits and were subject to US controls. Were the present escalating tensions between Washington and China over the South China Sea or other issues to escalate, China would be brought to her knees much like Japan prior to declaring war in 1941, when the USA embargoed her oil. A second pipeline brings natural gas from Qatar and Myanmar gas fields to China.

The OBOR includes oil and gas pipelines that reduce time and distance to imports of Middle East oil and gas

China will pay $53 billion to Myanmar in pipeline royalties over 30 years. They will also invest $25 million in schooling and other social development projects along the pipeline and 10% of the gas will stay inBurma.

Mackinder Outflanked?

The totality of the strategy behind Xi Jinping’s Eurasian One belt, One Road rail, sea and pipeline initiative, which is moving quietly and impressively forward, is transforming the world geopolitical map. In 1904 a British geographer, Sir Halford Mackinder, a fervid champion of the British Empire, unveiled a brilliant concept in a speech to the London Royal Geographical Society titled the Geographical Pivot of History. That essay has shaped both British and American global strategy of hegemony and domination to the present. It was complemented by US Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan’s 1890 work, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, which advocated “sea power,” stating that nations with domination of the seas, as the British Empire or later the USA, would dominate the world.

The One Belt, One Road, by linking all the contiguous land areas of Eurasia to the related network of strategic new or enlarged deep-water ports of OBOR’s Maritime Silk Road, has rendered US geopolitical strategy a devastating blow at a time the hegemony of America is failing as never in its short history. The Eurasian Century today is inevitable and unstoppable. Built on different principles of cooperation rather than domination, it just might offer a model for the bankrupt United States and the soon-bankrupt European Union, to build up true prosperity not based on looting and debt slavery.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info

 

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Only two projects at a cost of $137 million under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have been completed so far out of 17 early harvest proposed projects at a total estimated cost of $18 billion. According to the information shared with the National Assembly last week, the two CPEC projects that have been completed are Quaid-e-Azam 100 megawatts Solar Park at a cost of $137 million and Digital Terrestrial Multiband Broadcast at a cost of $2 million.

Ten of the remaining 15 projects that are under implementation include: (i) 10 energy projects at a total cost of $11.186 billion to generate around 4,460 megawatts electricity by 2018; (ii) two relating to transport infrastructure at a cost of $6.1 billion, (iii) two relating to Gwadar Port at a cost of $0.3706 billion and (iv) one Cross Border Optical Fiber Cable at an estimated cost of $0.044 billion.

Tentative completion deadline of two separate coal-fired projects is as follows:

(i) 660 megawatts of Port Qasim Electric Company Sindh at a projected cost of $1,980 million is scheduled for completion in 2017/2018;

and Sahiwal Coal-Fired Power Plant with a generation capacity of 1,320 megawatts at a cost of $1,600 million will be completed in June 2017.

Four Engro Thar projects with a total generation capacity of 1320 megawatts (330 MW each) at a cost of $2 billion will be completed by 2018;

surface mine in block-II of Thar coal field, 6.5mtpa, at a projected cost of $1,470 million is scheduled for completion in 2018;

Dawood 50 megawatts wind farm, Bhambore, Sindh at an estimated cost of $125 million is to be completed by November 2016;

UEP 100 megawatts wind farm, Jhimpir, Sindh, at a cost of $250 million will be completed by September 2017;

Sachal 50 megawatts wind farm, Jhimpir, Sindh, at a projected cost of $134 million will be completed by July 2017;

Suki Kinari Hydropower Station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at an estimated cost of $1,802 million is scheduled for completion in 2021/2022;

and Karo Hydropower Station, Azad Jammu Kashmir and Punjab at a cost of $1,420 will be completed in 2020/2021.

Two other projects under the CPEC-Transport Infrastructure Projects worth $6.1 billion are in the implementation stage.


Two projects under the CPEC-Gwadar Port worth $0.3706 billion are also in the implementation stage and are scheduled to be completed in 2018. Eastbay Expressway with a cost of $0.1406 billion and Gwadar International Airport

Karakorum Highway Phase-II (Raikot-Islamabad Section) worth $3,500 million will be completed in 2017/2018

and Peshawar-Karachi Motorway (Multan-Sukkur Section) worth $2,600 million will be completed in 2018.
with a cost of $0.230 billion would be completed in 2018.

Another project namely Cross Border Optical Fiber Cable with a cost of $0.044 billion will be completed in 2017/2018. China and Pakistan signed a $46 billion investment and infrastructure development programme in April 2015 during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Islamabad.

 

[The Eagle]

A Chinese vessel "Tianfu" docking at Gwadar Port, Baluchistan.

Pakistan's newly built deep sea port is operational and receiving break bulk ships.

 

[ghazi52]

Chinese Dumpers and Trucks Arrive in Pakistan For Up-Gradation of Roads

Shaanxi Heavy Duty Automobile Import & Export Co., LTD Xi’an China, a Chinese military based company has sent around 200 dumpers and 70 trucks to Pakistan for the up-gradation of Thakot-Raikot section of Karakkoram Highway and Mansehra – Thakot Expressway.

In China 70% of the total dumpers and other trucks are from this company.

On arrival of trucks to Pakistan the South Asia manager of the Company Mr. Gavin said that it was a positive sign towards the friendship between China and Pakistan.

He told that SHACMAN was planning to start assembly plant in Pakistan soon.

He said that trough setting up a plant the company aimed at enhancing the number of their trucks in Pakistan. He said that more trucks from their company in the country would make construction and others task easy for the PAK nation.

Service manager of the SHACMAN, Mr. Frank said that service played a key role for their machinery and SHACMAN would play a main role to provide service to their products to get the customers satisfaction about the products. SHACMAN service team has already arrived in Pakistan this month.

 

[WAJsal]

Work on Fiber Optic underway

source:
https://defence.pk/threads/chinese-...m-infrastructure-on-cpec.455486/#post-8807821

 

[India_the_great]

Btw what will Pakistan do with 17000MW of Electricity. Sell it to china? I mean a country needs Industrialization and hence demand to sustain consumption of that amount.

 

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Interesting conversation.

Indians have an existential hatred of Pakistan. Modi's 2016 independence speech mentioning Baluchistan and Balistan was a signal for RAW to start Hindu terror attacks in pakistan.

 

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China's third overseas nuclear power plant activates grid
Yuan Can (People's Daily Online) 13:02, October 17, 2016

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The third nuclear power station built in conjunction with the Belt and Road Initiative has started supplying electricity to Pakistan's national grid on a trial basis, Thepaper.cn reported. The station is being run by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).

The Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-3 (C-3), situated near Mianwali, Pakistan, has been officially connected to Pakistan's national power grid. According to CNNC, the China-powered C-3 and C-4 projects aim to deepen "all-weather" strategic partnership between China and Pakistan.

Chashma Nuclear Power Plant is the first "exported" commercial nuclear power plant independently designed and constructed by China. The other two nuclear power units at Chashma, C-1 and C-2, have been supplying electricity since 2000 and 2011 respectively, with more than 90 percent capacity.

The next unit, C-4, is slated to start operation in early 2017, the report said.

Two other large-capacity nuclear power plants in Pakistan are currently under construction in the port city of Karachi. They are scheduled to be completed in 2020 and 2021, adding an additional 2,100 MWe net electricity to the national grid.

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/china-energy-news-and-analyses.450305/page-2#ixzz4NOS3de3E