ISLAMABAD, Feb.12 (INP): China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) is all set to start de-silting operations at Gwadar Port to reclaim 14.5 meters of natural and original operational depth of Gwadar Port at a cost of Rs 4.7 billion. According to Gwadar Pro, it is a high-octane CPEC project that finally makes its headway at a watershed moment of …

  ISLAMABAD,  February 6 (INP): Agri technologies from China are contributing to Pakistan’s food security, Gwadar Pro reported on Monday. Pakistan is currently experiencing an economic crisis and one of the reasons is the recent worst flood, a flood that has shaken the basic life of Pakistan. Pakistan’s economy, especially life of the common people, is largely dependent on agriculture, so …

  ISLAMABAD, Feb 6 (INP): Rashakai Special Economic Zone (SEZ) will start operation in March as construction advances, Gwadar Pro reported on Monday. According to the report, it a sunny day on the Rashakai SEZ project. With a white helmet on, Engr. Samee Ullah is on his routine inspection of the project site with Chinese colleagues, reviewing daily progress and …

  ISLAMABAD, February 6 (INP): China is a potentially big market for Pakistani potato, because the price of potato in China is higher, especially from January to April every year. Gwadar Pro quoting Syed Ijaz ul Hassan, director of Potato Research Institute Sahiwal reported. ” We can say that potatoes are cultivated and harvested in Pakistan in some form around …

  ISLAMABAD, Feb 6 (INP):Chinese companies occupied the top four spots in the list of top ten phone manufacturers in Pakistan in 2022, as per the latest statistics from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), according to a report published by Gwadar Pro. Chinese companies have assembled/manufactured a major portion of 21.94 million phones locally produced in Pakistan in 2022. Itel …

    WUHAN (China)  Feb. 2 (INP): The project “Assessment and Regulation Mechanism of Climate Change Impacts on Water-energy-food Linkages in typical Regions of China and Pakistan”, jointly submitted by Chinese and Pakistani research institutes, has been successfully approved recently, according to China Economic Net (CEN). As an international (regional) cooperation and exchange project under China’s National Natural Science Foundation, …

  ISLAMABAD, February 1 (INP): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasted that Pakistan’s economy will grow by 2.0 percent in FY2023, 1.5 percent lower than what it projected in the October 2022 World Economic Outlook (WEO), according to a report, received by Gwadar Pro from its correspondent in Washington. Also the IMF projected the country’s economic growth to 4.4 percent …

  ISLAMABAD, Jan 31 (INP):  China-Pakistan small hydropower cooperation is injecting energy into Pakistan’s green economic development, said Wang Chunping, chairperson of Heroboss Technology group, in an interview with China Economic Net (CEN). He said, the development of small-scale hydropower can not only solve the problem of electricity consumption of local residents, but also help in developing small local industries, increasing …

  ISLAMABAD, Jan. 29 (INP): To provide 5 MW electricity to Gwadar Free Zone (North), a successful joint feasibility survey has been completed by Quetta Electric Power Supply Company (QEPSC) and China Overseas Ports Holding Company (COPHC), paving a way for the provision of power in 60 days. According to Gwadar Pro, a joint feasibility study finalized that after finding …

  ISLAMABAD, Jan. 29 (INP): To inject fresh impetus into the planned $ 4.5 billion oil refinery plant by a Chinese company in Gwadar as well as more than $ 10 billion oil refinery plant by Saudi Arab and UAE in Hub, Balochistan, the Pakistani government has finalised a draft of the oil refinery policy 2023 that envisages several tax …