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The Chinese Map For A Dependent Pakistan

What's in the pipeline for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

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The Chinese Map For A Dependent Pakistan
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Industry

  • Mineral extraction: Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for chrome ore, gold and diamond
  • Marble: Twelve marble and granite processing sites in Gilgit and Kohistan in the north and Khuzdar in the south
  • Textile: Central zone marked for textile, household appliances and cement
  • Cement production: Four clusters in Daudkhel, Khushab, Esakhel and Mianwali
  • Southern zone: Petrochemical, iron and steel, harbour industry, engineering machinery, trade processing and auto & auto parts assembly
  • Gwadar: Entreport and direct hinterland connecting Balochistan and Afghanistan—location for heavy and chemical industry such as iron and steel and petrochemical.
  • Textile: Industry for yarn and coarse cloth and market for cheap raw materials and development of textile and garments, it could help soak up surplus labour force in Kashgar
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Fibreoptics and Surveillance

  • Terrestrial cable: Across Khunjerab pass to Islamabad and submarine landing at Gwadar—can also lead to linking of Islamabad with all major cities of Pakistan.
  • Expanded bandwidth: Will help open terrestrial broadcast of digital HD television, called Digital Television Terrestrial Multimedia Braodcasting, to dissemninate Chinese culture into Pakistan
  • Surveillance: Electronic monitoring and control system for the border in Khunjerab with deployment of explosives detectors, scanners to cover major roads, case prone areas and crowded places in urban areas
  • Safe city: To be set up in Peshawar and extended to other cities like Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi with shared feeds and recordings
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Tourism and recreation

  • Keti Bunder to Jiwani: The entire belt near Iranian border will have yacht wharfs, cruise homesports, nightlife, city parks, public squares, theatres, golf courses and spas, hot spring hotels and water sports
  • Integrated cultural centres: Attempt to develop coastal vacation products, Islamic culture, historical culture, folk culture and marine culture and integrate them

Agriculture (Mainly in Punjab)

  • Spread over 6,500 acres will have two demonstration projects for crops—one for high yield seeds and the other for irrigation techniques
  • Meat processing plants: To be set up in Sukkur, a district in Sindh, with an annual output of 200,000 tonne
  • Storage bases: Islamabad and Gwadar—Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar
  • Vegetable and food processing plants: Asadabad, Islamabad, Lahore and Gwadar
  • Cotton processing plant: 100,000 tonnes output annually
  • Three level warehousing system: Purchase and storage warehouse, transit warehouse and port warehouse

Ten Major Power Projects in CPEC

  • Port Qasim Electric Company Coal Fired, Sindh—1330 MW
  • Sahiwal Coal-fired Power Plant, Punjab—1330 MW
  • Engro thar Coal-fired, Thar, Sindh—1320 MW
  • Rahimyar Khan Coal Power Project, Punjab—1320 MW
  • SSRL Mine Mouth Power Plant,Sindh—1320 MW
  • Zonergy Solar Park, Bahawalpur, Punjab-900 MW
  • Gaddani Power Park Project –(jetty plus infrastructure)—1320 MW
  • Kohala Hydel Project, AJK—1100 MW
  • Thar mine mouth oracle, Thar Sindh—1320 MW
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  • Muzaffargarh Coal Power Project, Punjab—1320 MW

Major Railway Projects

  • 560-kilometre track from Bostan to Kotla Jam on the main line II, via Zhob and Dera Ismail Khan
  • 682 kilometre from Havelian to Khunjerab
  • 1,872 kilometre track upgradation from Karachi to Peshawar via Kotri, Multan, Lahore and Rawalpindi (including Taxila_Havelian) alongwith dualisation of Shahdara to Peshawar track
  • 1,254 kilometre track to be upgraded from Kotri to Attock city via Dadu, Larkana, Jacobabad, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bhakkar and Kundan

Source: Dawn newspaper

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