One Belt and One Road

In 2014, China and Pakistan proposed to promote the China-Pakistan economic corridor project under the “One Belt and One Road” strategy and build a trade corridor from Kashgar, Xinjiang to Gwadar, Pakistan, including roads, railways, oil and gas energy, fiber optic cable communications, agriculture, and seaports. Integrated infrastructure projects in the field. The expansion of Gwadar Port is this harbor project.

Gwadar was originally a small fishing village with a desert Gobi and a few thousand people adjoining the Arabian Sea. The land is sparsely populated, the economy is lagging behind, and the wind and sand are hot. “The old and the young are poor,” lack of water and electricity, and local separatism was once categorized. Oman. However, the eye-catching Pakistani strategist discovered the huge "gold content" of Gwadar and redeemed it from Oman in 1958 and built a small port.

Although the port is small, it is at the forefront: Gwadar Port is close to the Iranian and Pakistani borders and is adhering to the sea channel that leads the Hormuz Strait to the Arabian Sea, which is responsible for supplying 40% of the world's crude oil. This port location immediately attracted the attention of all regions and international powers such as the former Soviet Union, the United States, India, and Iran. 

For further  Best investment opportunities in Lahore U.S. businessmen signed a multi-billion-dollar investment agreement with the local government in the 1990s, but the U.S. side proposed that the security requirements and plans for similar military bases were opposed by the Palestinian government and the opposition parties. The project was dead. The Port Authority of Singapore, which adhered to the Straits of Malacca in the Middle East Asian oil channel, once won 40 years of operation here in 2007, but its operation and construction has not reached the expectations of Pakistan. At the end of January 2013, the Pakistani government formally approved the transfer of the operation rights of Hong Kong to China Hong Kong.

After receiving the Chinese people, the Chinese government has made plans for the construction of comprehensive infrastructure such as transportation and energy, and an orderly investment with the idea of building Shenzhen. In particular, after the visit of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Pakistan in 2015, the construction of the Gwadar port has accelerated significantly. Health, medical care, education, and people’s livelihood projects have been carried out in an orderly manner. The Chinese financial institutions have been stationed here. This is called “Shenzhen in Pakistan”.