China and Pakistan signed 6 agreements to enhance and accelerate cooperation under CPEC.: Six key bilateral agreements were inked by China and Pakistan to accelerate and expand current collaboration under the multibillion-dollar CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) project. The CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) project would be a 3,000-kilometer long network of huge infrastructure projects connecting China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Gwadar Port in Pakistan’s western region of Balochistan.
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The CPEC, which connects Gwadar Port in Pakistan’s Balochistan with China’s Xinjiang province, is opposed by India as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal and Vice Chairman of China’s National Development and Reforms Commission Zhao Chenxin signed the document on the CPEC joint cooperation committee, as well as another agreement on the establishment of an expert exchange mechanism within the framework of the CPEC. The third document was signed by the Secretary Ministry of National Food Security Zafar Hassan and the Chinese Charge D’Affaires Pang Chunxue to export dried chillies from Pakistan to China.
Member Planning of National Highway Authority Asim Amin and Pang signed the fourth document on the realignment of the Karakoram Highway Phase II project feasibility study. The two sides also signed the MOU on the Industrial Workers’ Exchange Programme through diplomatic channels and agreed to promote the strategic ML-1 rail upgradation project.
