What is CPEC. China Pakistan Economic Corridor

China Pakistan Economic Corridor

      Multibillion dollar project China Pakistan Economic corridor or CPEC

Geographically the corridor refers to 2000 Kilometer road and rail link connecting Kasgher west china’s Singxaag region to Pakistan south west Port of Gwadar.

 

    The project is not mainly limited to transportation but it also includes cooperation and financing investments as well as measures on energy which cover1.      Coal fire power plants
2.      Hydroelectric power
3.      Wind-generated power
4.      Solar power station
5.      Coal supplies
 The corridor is also expected to help some of the most under developing areas of Pakistan by reducing poverty and generating job opportunities.

      Benefits to China

   It will reduce China’s transportation distance from 10,000 to 2000km as currently China is transporting goods to Middle East and Africa through strait of Malacca which takes 45 days. CPEC will reduce the transportation time frame to even lesser than 10 days through the new route from Khunjarab Pass (Sust Dry port) Hunza, GilgitBaltistan, KPK, Punjab and the largest province of Pakistan Baluchistan to Gwadar Deep water see port.. In Broader view CPEC will closely connect China to1.      Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan)
2.      Persian Gulf (Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) &
3.      West Asia Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Palestine and Georgia. Turke through economic and energetic cooperation.

      

 

T  he Pakistan-China Fiber Optic Project is an under-construction 820-kilometer-long optical fiber cable being laid between the Khunjerab Pass on the China-Pakistan border and the city of Rawalpindi. It is being constructed as part the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor at an estimated cost of $44 million Groundbreaking on the project took place on May 19, 2016 in Gilgit city.

  

The line will connect the Transit Europe-Asia Terrestrial Cable Network with that of Pakistan.
Some Disadvantages of CPEC
·         This may hamper the cultural identity of the area and its people.
·         freedom of expression may will disturbed
·         Nosie and air pollution to the environment
·         Increasing life threat to Wild animal (Ibex, Marco polo sheep, blues Sheep and snow leopard) of Khunjarab National Park.

·         Due to heavy flow of traffic and increasing diversity on the roads, drugs, smuggling and crime rate may increase.