CPEC (Infrastructure)

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The objective of CPEC is both to transform Pakistan’s economy—by improving its road, rail, air, and energy conveyance systems—and to connect the deep-sea Pakistani ports of Gwadar and Karachi to China’s Xinjiang province and beyond by overland routes. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), massive bilateral project to ameliorate infrastructure within Pakistan for better trade with China and to further integrate the countries of the region. CPEC is a component of the more sizably voluminous Belt and Road Initiative—to ameliorate connectivity, trade, communication, and cooperation between the countries of Eurasia—announced by China in 2013. This would reduce the time and cost of conveying goods and energy such as natural gas to China by circumventing the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. Xinjiang borders the countries of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, and the archaic Silk Road ran through its territory. The promulgation of joint space and satellite initiatives between Pakistan and China, spurred by CPEC, followed in 2016. CPEC has been compared to the Marshall Plan for the reconstituting of post-World War II Europe in its potential impact on the region, and numerous countries have shown interest in participating in the initiative.

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