Pakistan has around 2350 MWe operating nuclear capacity and 1100 MWe is underconstruction; most of it was developed with Chinese help. Nuclear energy power generation contributes about 7 percent to Pakistan's power generation. China-Pak cooperation on this front started in the 1980s with the Chashma project and continues to date with the recent K2 and K3 plants in Karachi.
The author discusses how in seventy years the People's Republic of China moved to the center of the world stage, became the world's largest economy (by purchasing power parity rating) in 2014 and what lessons does this hold for Pakistan given it was at the same level of development as China in 1949.
While it may be impossible for Pakistan to adopt China's lawfare model completely- given they have a one-party system, learning from their experience, we can follow a roadmap empowering the state to counter corruption successfully through creating a powerful watchdog called 'Pakistan Financial Crime Monitoring Bureau,' to catch what President Xi Jinping calls "tigers and flies" (influential higher-ups as well as lower rank public servants)
Though several international and Chinese leaders have visited Pakistan since 1950 – but for some reason not fully understood the words “Mao & Zhou Enlai” have become part of Pakistani memories and language. This piece traces the history!
POWERCHINA, a global leader in the development of clean and low-carbon energy, worked in collaboration with Pakistan to construct the Port Qasim coal-fired power plant. This was among the first batch of implementation projects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Meanwhile, POWERCHINA has also invested time and effort in cultivating a partnership and friendship with people of Pakistan.
The ML-1 railway line project is one of the biggest projects not only of CPEC Phase-II ($6.8 billion) but of Pakistan’s recent history in terms of logistics and communications. Since the partition of British Indian Empire into India and Pakistan this is the single biggest expansion of railway system.