ISLAMABAD: China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has envisaged many public welfare schemes which will help improve health of the people and ensure they get other basic needs of life.
"It is the involvement of private sector which will steer forward the vision of leadership of both the countries and materialize the development of this corridor which will prove to be a fate for future," Director General, Pak-China Institute, Fazal-ur-Rehman said.
He made it clear that the corridor project was spread over entire Pakistan from South to North having several projects of energy, infrastructure, health, education and clean drinking water.
On a few misconceptions in media and some political circles, he said China Pakistan Economic Corridor was not a name of any single road or rail alignment. He said it was neither aimed at competing with other ports, nor was being ventured on loan money, he said.
Rehman said that besides health and education, other projects included municipal infrastructure, people to people communication, information network infrastructure, energy cooperation, industries and industrial parks, agricultural development and poverty alleviation, tourism and financial cooperation.
He said that both countries have decided that the CPEC should be promoted in priority and step by step, incorporating the long term and short and medium term needs,based on the concrete conditions of Pakistan.
According to planning experts the prime objective of CPEC is to benefit all the regions and people in Pakistan particularly with the start of several health projects their health conditions would see a positive change.
They said that the governments of both the countries are keen to help with planning and providing an enabling environment while the actual success of this corridor will happen when people of China and Pakistan own the development process.
Senior Research Fellow, China Desk, Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), Muhammad Muneer said Corridor was practical manifestation of government's economic agenda envisaged in Vision 2025 for country's economic stability and infrastructural uplift as the project would enhance regional connectivity.
Muneer said with Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit next week, the implementation of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project would start. Both countries had signed an MoU in July, 2013 in the presence of both Pakistani and Chinese prime ministers.
During year-long efforts by the planning experts from both sides to execute the project, he said, the working groups were formed and the projects including Gwadar Port, energy and motorway were surveyed.
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