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Second phase of CPEC focuses on capacity building, tech cooperation: experts - Daily Times

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2022 06:05 ET

As President Xi Jinping met with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to further consolidate the bilateral ironclad friendship, the two countries will set in motion a flurry of projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including the construction of auxiliary infrastructure for Gwadar Port and a high-speed rail project connecting Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi to Peshawar.
Business representatives and industry observers said the economic cooperation highlights yielded by the visit underscore that the construction of CEPC has been upgraded from phase one, which focuses on addressing fundamental issues involving power shortages and infrastructure connectivity, to phase two which aims to facilitate capacity cooperation, stimulate indigenous economic drives and speed up the South Asian country’s push to modernize.
The Pakistani side has also vowed to step up security measures, further providing a guarantee to the safety of Chinese personnel and China-invested projects – a pledge entrusted by Chinese business representatives which will pave way for the efficient implementation of flagship projects in CPEC’s second phase.
The fruitful results achieved by the visit also speak volumes of the all-weather friendship and mutually beneficial economic ties between China and Pakistan, which could not be swayed by the empty promises made by the US that neither invested extensively in Pakistan...



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