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China to set up large steel factory at Gwadar: Envoy

Excellent news. ...but among airport, steel mills, hospital and vocational institution, I wish the latter two to be completed and start functioning asap as this will provide the locals a relief and in return they will support CPEC more.
I think the water desalination should come first because the lack of water seems to be the primary concern for the people of Gwadar.

Anyone know the completion date of the water plant?

@Muhammad Omar
 
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I wish they open up CPEC to small investors ($100K—$250K).

If I could invest, I would invest everything in this venture. A steel mill near a port is a money printing machine.
 
I wish they open up CPEC to small investors ($100K—$250K).

If I could invest, I would invest everything in this venture. A steel mill near a port is a money printing machine.
They will I believe

One of my relative has invested so much at Sambrial dry port near Sialkot... I think the procedure is going to be similar if not easier for investing in Gwadar.

They sometimes impose minimum investment of lets say 1 million dollars to get lucrative benefits such as duty-free imports etc but I guess you will be able to start a good business in Special Economic Zone for investment of $200k more like in service sector or imports
 
I think it is a first corner step for ship building business in Pakistan in near future. Gwadar is an ideal place for such a project considering thousands of vessels passes through the Strait of hormuz each year and dock at UAE for maintenance. We can offer good incentives to them and get some of that business in hand leading to enhancement of technical skills in future

Shipbuilding requires a lot more than a steel mill and a corner plot on the coastline.
 
Shipbuilding requires a lot more than a steel mill and a corner plot on the coastline.
of course that is why I just said that it is going to be the first step.

We already have a steel mill in Karachi, pretty much rotting, I never thought about such a ship building infrastructure in Karachi.. There is a reason that it has higher probability of becoming success in Gwadar. China is wise, they knows that with Steel Mills they will be able to provide necessary material for construction process in Balochistan and parts of Pakistan. If nothing much to gain then they will always be able to expand their ship building business at Gwadar. It's one of the most ideal place for ship building in the world due to the fact that its one of the busiest lanes of sea traffic with only maintenance service provides around UAE
 
I think the water desalination should come first because the lack of water seems to be the primary concern for the people of Gwadar.

Anyone know the completion date of the water plant?

@Muhammad Omar

News of 30 November 2016

CDWP Green Lights Gwadar Water Purification Plant

The federal government on Tuesday cleared, in principle, a project for installing a water purification plant in Gwadar, the nerve city for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), aimed at meeting water requirements of the city’s industrial zone.
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) cleared the scheme to enable the implementation agency to arrange finances for the Reverse Osmosis Sea Water Plant. Initial cost of the project has been estimated at Rs5.1 billion, which may change as it has been worked out without a detailed engineering design.

Overall, the CDWP approved seven projects worth Rs36 billion, including four projects costing Rs30 billion that were referred to the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) for final approval. The CDWP has powers to approve up to Rs3 billion worth of projects.

It constituted a committee, headed by Member Infrastructure Planning Commission Malik Ahmad Khan, to examine the Reverse Osmosis Sea Water Plant project.

The water purification plant is part of Early Harvest Projects of the CPEC. The government plans to make it part of the CPEC Framework Agreement. It has not allocated any funds for the project in the current fiscal year’s Public Sector Development Programme.

The CDWP cleared the scheme in order to finalise financing arrangements. It has been estimated that China will provide 90% of the financing.

The plant will have a capacity to supply five million gallons of water per day to the Gwadar city, which will meet over one-third of the requirement. Reverse osmosis is a water purification technology that uses a semi-permeable membrane to remove ions, molecules and large particles from the drinking water.

The city’s total water requirement has been estimated at 14 million gallons per day. At present, two million gallons are being supplied from the Ankara Kaur Dam and two million gallons from the Balochistan Development Authority’s desalination plant.

However, the government has had a bitter experience of running desalination plants and there is a possibility the new plant will be handed over to a private investor on a turnkey basis, said an official of the planning ministry.

Additional health plans

The CDWP approved five health projects valuing Rs22.7 billion. It referred Sindh’s immunisation support programme costing Rs8 billion to Ecnec for approval.

It also sent two projects of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to Ecnec. These are expanded immunisation programmes worth Rs6.6 billion for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Rs7.3 billion for Balochistan.

All the three immunisation projects are aimed at preventing children from nine diseases including childhood tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis-B, haemophilus influenza, measles and pneumonia.

Overall, the CDWP approved seven projects worth Rs36 billion, including four projects costing Rs30 billion that were referred to the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) for final approval. The CDWP has powers to approve up to Rs3 billion worth of projects.

The meeting approved the establishment of a unit for shredding, sterilisation and disposal of medical waste of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Islamabad at a cost of Rs199 million. It also approved the establishment of a children’s hospital in Bahawalpur costing Rs519 million.


Gwadar Port to begin trade activities today

It recommended the seventh secondary transmission and grid station project worth Rs8.6 billion to Ecnec. The project will provide adequate facilities for reliable and stable supply of electrical power to meet the growing demand of domestic, commercial, industrial and agricultural customers of Gujranwala Power Distribution Company.

The CDWP also approved three position papers including that for the extension of Right Bank Outfall Drain (RBOD) from Sehwan to the sea at a cost of Rs61.9 billion, Balochistan effluent disposal into the RBOD worth Rs10.8 billion and Lower Indus Right Bank Irrigation and Drainage Project stage-1 worth Rs17.5 billion. These projects are already at the implementation stage and are examples of poor project management. Their execution began during the General Musharraf’s tenure. Implementation agencies launched the schemes without proper designs, resulting in frequent changes in their cost and scope.
 
Is China going to economically colonize Pakistan? It seems its getting bigger grip of your countrys economy and infrastructure every day. May not be that bad today, but God knows what tomorrow brings...
 
Well for steels factory we have one setup in Karachi , would make sense to revive this factory ? Would be better option

It would be ideal to revive the Steeles mills in Karachi , Under Chinese business management and then setup sister company in Gawadar and link the two by train
 
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I wish they open up CPEC to small investors ($100K—$250K).

If I could invest, I would invest everything in this venture. A steel mill near a port is a money printing machine.


Why would you say that?... curious

Thanks
 
Isnt their Tuwairqi Steel mills on port qasim standing idle due to lack of gas already?

It would be ideal to revive the Steeles mills in Karachi , Under Chinese business management and then setup sister company in Gawadar and link the two by train

Karachi steel mill is a junk yard now
 
Is China going to economically colonize Pakistan? It seems its getting bigger grip of your countrys economy and infrastructure every day. May not be that bad today, but God knows what tomorrow brings...

Pakistan is a country open to all investors...of the world..if they arent coming in..China will go grab the whole pie...
 
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