China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) | Updates & Discussions

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CPEC update 1: Sahiwal 2x660MW coal power plant invested by Huaneng Shandong Ruyi, was commissioned on June 8, achieved COD on Oct 28, 2017. It is most advanced, environmentally-friendly, built with shortest construction period, a miracle in Pakistan's power construction history.

CPEC update: 2. 1320MW Port Qasim Power Plant was completed by February 2018. The plant can supply power for 4 million households. It adopts supercritical technology and conforms with world bank environmental standards.

CPEC update: 3. Zonergy's 3x100MW Solar Power Plants in Bahawalpur was an Early Harvest Project under CPEC. To fulfill commitment of earliest completion of the project for Pakistan, Zonergy even air-lifted the heaviest shipment of 76-ton main transformer to Pakistan.

CPEC update: 4. 99MW UEP Jhimpir Wind Farm. Some latest pictures of the Admin Building, Substation, Wind Turbines and Temporary Site Facilities.

CPEC update: 5. 49.5MW Hydrochina Dawood Power started operations in April 2017. This project will provide electricity to 100,000 households.

 

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CPEC update: 6. 49.5MW Sachal wind farm achieved COD in April 2017. This project will provide electricity to 100,000 households. It is owned by Sachal Energy, which is whole-subsidiary of Arif Habib Group. The EPC contract was signed with Hydro China.

CPEC update: 7. Three Gorges Second Phase Wind Power Project (2×49.5MW) is located in Jhimpir Village, Thatta District, Sindh Province, listed in the CPEC. It has been under construction since September 2016.

CPEC update: 8. China Power Hub Generation Company Private Limited is working on 2×660MW Coal-fired Power Plant, Hub, Baluchistan on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

CPEC update: 9. China Machinery Engineering Corporation is working on Thar block II coal mine & power plant. 60% of target has been completed. Open pit mine is dug down to 120m, much ahead of time. Boiler has steam drums in position, Main Hall & Cooling Tower are almost finished.

CPEC update: 10. Pic: December 1, 2017, Suki Kinari Hydro Power Project invested by CGGC commenced its construction on main parts.
Pic . March 30, 2017, Suki Kinari Hydro Power Project started its ground breaking.
Pic . Successful opening of Baily Bridge at Power house area.

 

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CPEC update: 11. 720MW Karot Hydropower project is invested by China Three Gorges. It has been under construction since December 2016. The financial close was achieved in February 2017. It is first project financed by Silk Road Fund. It is also financed by IFC of World Bank.

CPEC update: 12. Pic : 22000 hard-working Pakistani staff are hired alone on Peshawar-Karachi Motorway (Sukkur-Multan Section). Pic : Subbase & roadbase along 392 km motorway are completed. Pic : Sutlej River Bridge (647m) in progress. Pic 4l: Asphalt base course has started.

CPEC update: 13. Pic : Pavement construction of KKH Phase-II (Havelian-Thakot). It is 118km long, 39km is expressway at 80-100kph, 79km is class-II highway at 60kph. Pic : Abbottabad Interchange. Pic : Abbottabad Tunnels. Pic : Pre-casting Yard that shall make 4292 Girders.

CPEC update: 14. Pic . Gwadar Port run by COPHC, has 3 multifunctional berths, 5 STS. Good for bulk-cargo, general cargo & RORO. Pic : Free Zone phase-1 will develop commercial logistics zone with exhibition, transit & distribution, & fishery processing. Pic : Business Center.

 

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CPEC update: 15. Pic : Orange Line project adopts Chinese standard, technology & equipment. Chinese B1 type Metro Train. Pic : Standard Metro Station. Pics standard elevated stations

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CPEC update: 16. Pic : Pakistan-China Optical Fiber Cable Project by Huawei & SCO is under construction through a tunnel in GB. Pic : Construction work in mountain area in northern Pakistan. Pic : Construction in mountain area above 5000+ meters in northern Pakistan.

CPEC update: 17. Small and beautiful. China Pakistan government middle school at Gwadar is first project completed under CPEC. Cute children, cute school ! The land was donated by a local citizen. Now it has 400 students.

CPEC update: 18. 19 kilometre-long dual carriageway known as Gwadar East Bay Expressway is under construction at a cost of $140 million to connect Gwadar Port to Makran Coastal Highway. The existing road connecting Port to Coastal Highway has to go through the Gwadar town.

 

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CPEC update: 19. It was inaugurated as the pilot project of PTV during President Xi Jinping's visit to Pakistan in 2015. It was supported by a grant from China.
DTMB DEMO Project technical presentation by ZTE to DTVNEL, MOIB & PTV top management on July 24, 2017.

CPEC update: 20. China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co. is working on MATIARI-LAHORE ±660kV HVDC Transmission project.
The capacity is 4000 MW.
Length of transmission line is
878km. Construction period
is approximately 27 months.

 

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CPEC update: 19. It was inaugurated as the pilot project of PTV during President Xi Jinping's visit to Pakistan in 2015. It was supported by a grant from China.
DTMB DEMO Project technical presentation by ZTE to DTVNEL, MOIB & PTV top management on July 24, 2017.

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CPEC update: 20. China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co. is working on MATIARI-LAHORE ±660kV HVDC Transmission project.
The capacity is 4000 MW.
Length of transmission line is
878km. Construction period
is approximately 27 months.

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Excellent updates Mr. Muhammad Omar

 

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Great job guys keep it up!

 

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Energy projects under CPEC included in active list: Ahsan Iqbal

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  Samaa Web Desk
  
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• Tags:ACTIVE LIST, ahsan IQBAL, China Pakistan Economic Corridor, cpec

ISLAMABAD:Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Prof Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday said that under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) the energy projects are included in the active list with power capacity of 11110 MW.

Speaking in the Senate during question hour, the minister said that Pakistan and China has agreed in May 2017 to adjust the CPEC Energy Projects List, based on research and scientific analysis and on the recommendations of the CPEC Energy Planning Expert Panel from both sides.

Accordingly both sides agreed to hold Muzaffargarh Coal Power Project (1,320MW), Salt Range Mine Mouth Power Project (300MM including mining, Gaddani Power Park (1,320MW), Sunnec Wind Farm (50MW), Chichoki Mallian Combined-cycle Power Plant (525MW) till endorsed as feasible, he added.

However, the minister said that it has been decided that total installed capacity of the CPEC project will remain same; 17045 MW as defined in the Agreement on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Energy Project Cooperation.

Both sides agreed that after the adjustment, the balance insufficient capacity will be enhanced gradually, and priority shall be given in this regard to hydropower projects along the Indus river Basin, the minister said. – APP

 

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CPEC in mind: Rawalpindi-Kahuta link inauguration set for March 3

Project will ease flow of heavy traffic to and from AJK, ease burden on Sihala
By SEHRISH WASIF
Mar.02,2018
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is expected to inaugurate the Rs12 billion Rawalpindi-Kahuta project on March 3. Formal work on the strategically important link is expected to begin soon after.

This was decided at an executive board meeting of the National Highway Authority (NHA) on Thursday.

While sharing details of the project, an NHA official said that the link starts from the Grand Trunk (GT) Road (N-5) interchange near Sowan and passes through Kahuta city before heading to Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK).

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Once complete, the project will help ease travel between AJK and the federal capital along with a substantial decrease in transportation cost for heavy traffic.

Agriculture products will reach their destinations in time and the troubled population of Sihala and other areas will get the much-needed relief from heavy trucks littering their back roads.

“Due to the heavy traffic and increasing population of people and vehicles, the existing road [in Sihala] remains packed which obviously create immense issues [for the local community],” said the NHA official. He was of the view that this project currently needs of the hour while considering the traffic load.

“It carries immense strategic value and is the shortest route for traffic commuting between Rawalakot, Kotli and Islamabad.”

The project for dualization, rehabilitation and improvement of the 28 kilometre-long section is divided into two packages.

In the first package, a 16.5km section will be built from the Kaakpul Interchange to Trikiyan. In the second package, a 12 km stretch from Trikiyan to Kahuta will be built.

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The project includes a four-lane fly-over at the Sihala railway crossing, Sihala bypass and Kahuta bypass in addition to three bridges, one underpass and 50 box culverts. The width of each lane will be 3.65 metres with an inner shoulder of 0.6 metres. Outer shoulders will 2.5m.

Maximum speed in plain areas will be 100km per hour while in hilly areas it will be 80km/hr.

The existing road is comprised of two lanes and insufficient to accommodate the ever-growing volume of traffic resulting in severe congestion, especially at the Sihala railway crossing, where traffic remains choked for hours.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2018.

 

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India’s derision of CPEC

The only option for India is to resolve its disputes with Pakistan through dialogue and join CPEC to benefit from its economic fruits rather than opposing it

India, which has been opposed to China since it received a drubbing from it in the 1962 Sino-Indian War, spares no stone unturned to denigrate it.

Pakistan was never accepted as a sovereign state by India and every machination in the Chanakyan book on guile and deceit has been tried out to subjugate Pakistan. India had believed that following the severance of its eastern wing in 1971, West Pakistan too would collapse but that did not happen. On the contrary Pakistan prospered and came out of the nuclear closet in 1998.

The commencement of the global war on terror by the US and coalition forces in Afghanistan in 2001, provided India a ray of hope to disparage its western neighbour and it started a propaganda campaign that Pakistan was an epicentre of terrorism in the region.

To divert world attention towards Pakistan and presenting it as a sponsor of terrorism, India even went to the extent of staging a false flag operation in the shape of an attack on its own parliament building and blaming Pakistan for it. Using the attack as a plea, India amassed its troops menacingly on the Pakistan border. The US refused to be side-tracked from its mission in Afghanistan and forced India to withdraw its troops.

After the going got tough for the US and its allies in Afghanistan, Washington turned on Pakistan and entered into a strategic alliance with India.

China’s emergence as an economic power was ringing alarm bells in US State Department and it was willing to prop up India as a bulwark to check China. Indians jumped on the opportunity as they had two clear objectives. Firstly to influence the US and European powers that Pakistan be penalised to undermine its nuclear capability and give a clear edge to India in South Asia. Secondly, by trying to equate the indigenous freedom struggle of the Kashmiris as terrorism; India wanted that the western countries should not support the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.

After becoming a strategic partner of the US and having been declared by the US as a lynchpin of its Asia pivot policy, aimed at containing rising China, India received a boost. In this backdrop, in the changed post-withdrawal scenario (from Afghanistan), India had become further encouraged with the US tilt in favour of India over Pakistan in South Asia.

If India believes that the US will continue to provide it all the required strategic military support to make it a major world power and prefer it over Pakistan in South Asia even if it refuses to cooperate with the US in its Asia pivot strategy to limit Chinese and Russian influence in Asia, it is mistaken

The 2015 visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Islamabad and the launch of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) threw cold water on Indian plans to destabilise Pakistan as CPEC would transform Pakistan’s economy in a major way.

The projected economic benefits of CPEC to Pakistan and its enhanced strategic partnership with China, forced Indian propaganda campaigners to target CPEC along with diplomatically isolating Pakistan to deny CPEC economic and strategic advantages to Pakistan and China. Instead of choosing to join this mega project to reap related economic benefits for its people, India opted to belittling it.

A multi-pronged strategy was evolved by India. Firstly to vilify CPEC, secondly to sabotage it and thirdly to develop the Iranian port of Chabahar port and link it with Afghanistan to offer an alternate to Afghanistan as well as Central Asian States in lieu of Gwadar Port.

India fails to take into cognisance that ultimately economies of scale will decide about the success of the ports, as distance from Mumbai to Chabahar is 1800 kilometers, and from Chabahar to Kabul it is 1851kilometer, whereas distance from Gwadar to Kabul is 450 kilometer.

If India believes that the US will continue to provide it all the required strategic military support to make it a major world power and prefer it over Pakistan in South Asia even if it refuses to cooperate with the US in its Asia pivot strategy to limit Chinese and Russian influence in Asia, it is mistaken. Foreign relations are based on ethnocentrism. The US realises that India continues to pursue its independent foreign policy, as it did by not supporting the US against Russia over Ukraine crises, in its sanctions against Iran and in the Syrian conflict.

In the long run such a one sided game cannot be sustained. Even if India does become a part of the Asia pivot policy of the US, for peace in Afghanistan the US will continue to maintain good relations with Pakistan as well and India will not be able to isolate Pakistan. This is more so when China and Pakistan are now deeply connected through the CPEC project and Russia is aspiring to build good relations with Pakistan to cooperate on Afghanistan.

Besides Russia, Iran and UK, more and more countries are signing up for CPEC thus India will fail in deriding CPEC. The only option for India is to resolve its outstanding disputes with Pakistan through dialogue and join the CPEC to reap connected economic benefits rather than opposing it.

The writer is a retired Group Captain of PAF. He is a columnist, analyst and TV talk show host, who has authored six books on current affairs, including three on China

Published in Daily Times, March 10th 2018.

 

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Pakistan to become industrial hub of S Asia after CPEC’s completion: Ahsan

12:12 PM | March 25, 2018

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by APP

Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal yesterday said Pakistan would become an industrial hub of South Asia after the completion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.


CPEC would connect not only China to Europe, Africa and the Middle East, but would also play an important role in regional connectivity, he said while talking to a local media outlet.

Ahsan Iqbal, who is also Minister for Planning and Development, said the CPEC would make the entire region developed and prosperous. The mega project was a game changer for Pakistan as it would bring mega improvement in social infrastructure, energy, industrial cooperation, agriculture and many other sectors, besides creating millions of job opportunities for the youth of the country, he added.

The CPEC, he said, was launched with the consensus of all political parties. The government had held an all parties conference on the matter.

The minister said Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan would become gateways of the CPEC. Trade zones would be set up in the federal capital, all the four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Federally Administered Tribal Areas, he added.

He said Chinese and Pakistani companies would make large-scale investment in the trade zones, which would not only create new jobs, but also help transfer new technology to Pakistan.


He said enemies were trying to sabotage the CPEC project. The arrest of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav testified that fact. However, law enforcement agencies were providing complete security to all those, who were working on the projects underway under the CPEC. A special force of some 10,000 security personnel had been constituted for the purpose.

The minister said in 2013 when the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) came into government, the country was facing many challenges, including terrorism, energy shortfall, and deteriorating law and order situation. The government with its effective policies overcame all the challenges, he added.

He said some 11,500 mega watt electricity was added to the national grid during the last four years.

About $35 billion were being spent in the energy sector only and there was not even a single penny of loan included in it, rather it was investment under the CPEC, he added.

He said Thar had rich coal deposits and it would become an energy capital of the country after the completion of coal projects.

He expressed the hope that the people would again vote the PML-N in the next general election in majority for the continuity of development process in the country.

 

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20 different projects progressing under CPEC project: Yao Jing

Pakistan
by Muhammad Irfan | Published on March 28, 2018 (Edited March 28, 2018)

ISLAMABAD – Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing says work on approximately 20 different projects is in progress under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project and out of these projects several are near to the final stage. He made these remarks while he paid a visit to Dosti FM 98 in Islamabad on Wednesday.

The Chinese Ambassador said China has made an investment of $19 billion in Pakistan for these projects.

During his visit to the FM 98 Dosti channel, he termed exchange of the communication sector between the two countries as a heartening step.

The channel was established with the mutual collaboration of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) and China Radio International.