The importance of Gwadar

Gwadar Port is already one of the largest projects of China’s foreign aid. Its "gold content" has gone beyond ordinary economic significance and has very important political significance, diplomatic significance, and international influence.

Despite all kinds of natural and political factors, Gwadar still seems to be a testing ground for China’s idea of economic development to radicalize religious extremism. This is also a point that many investors value or worry about.

The Gwadar population has now grown to over 85,000. According to the long-term planning of Gwadar as one of the global trade centers, Gwadar will not only continue to expand the port but also build airports and free trade zones. 

It not only has a large-scale industrial chain of warehousing, logistics and processing and manufacturing. Clusters, together with China, Pakistan, and other countries, have entered the financial and insurance industry and will have a correspondingly large number of living, leisure, and catering facilities. 

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The Chinese are still investing here to establish schools and dispatch medical personnel to set up hospitals. The high-class hotel was also built. There are media in China predicting that the population here will be doubled to more than two million in 20 years.

The importance of Gwadar has not only been for China and Pakistan, but it will also be the closest seaport for landlocked countries such as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. It is gradually becoming the center of logistics and port transportation in this region.

In recent years, Gwadar’s population has poured in from other parts of Pakistan and land prices have risen sharply. No wonder Pakistani investors and speculators value this "Pakistan's new Shenzhen."

Shenzhen and Gwadar are fundamentally different: Shenzhen faced economically developed Hong Kong and was backed by the resource-rich Pearl River Delta. It enjoys policy support, financial support, and manpower support from the Central Government of China, Guangdong local government, and the Hong Kong SAR, and there are no security concerns. Although Gwadar has broad prospects and has the full protection of the Central Government of Pakistan, it remains to be seen whether the challenges of natural resources, social and geopolitical factors can be overcome.