Pakistan and China have decided to jointly launch three new projects alongside the existing multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as the all-weather allies seek to strengthen bilateral ties in various sectors including agriculture, health and science and technology. Speaking at the China Economic Net (CEN) in Beijing, Pakistan Ambassador to China Moinul Haq said the three new projects are China-Pakistan Green Corridor (CPGC), China-Pakistan Health Corridor (CPHC) and China-Pakistan Digital Corridor (CPDC ).
The first will focus on agricultural environment, food security and green development, and the second will help Pakistan achieve efficiency in the medical field, while the third will boost Pakistan’s IT industry. Ambassador Haque said that Pakistan has a rich repertoire of talent and human resources in various fields of science and technology and stated that IT-based science and technology has become very important for Pakistan.
“We would be an important source of assistance to China in terms of software development. So we are working together to set up training centers in Pakistan for software development in various IT fields,” he said. Haque attached great importance to new projects, which are launched with great enthusiasm.
The report cited Pakistani sources as saying that the formal launch of the projects could take place within the next month during the visit of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to China, who was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The schedule and relevant travel details are preferably worked out through diplomatic channels, it said.
The new corridors will become a source of strengthening Pakistan-China ties and provide a new unshakable bond of closeness between the two nations, it said. Sources recalled that the extent of Pakistan-China friendship and cooperation will help Pakistan overcome its economic complexities and start moving towards fiscal self-sufficiency, she added. CPEC, launched in 2015 and linking Gwadar port in Pakistan’s Balochistan with China’s Xinjiang province, is the flagship project of China’s ambitious multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). India has raised objections to the CPEC as it runs through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). CPEC was launched in 2015 when President Xi visited Pakistan. Billions of dollars worth of energy and infrastructure projects have been completed in a project hailed as a “game changer” by senior officials from both countries.
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