Chinese delegation visits site of economic zone near Mardan

PESHAWAR: A joint delegation of Chinese National Development Reforms Commission (CNDRC) and investors on Wednesday visited the site of economic zone at Rashakai near Mardan

Project Director CPEC Economic Zone Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ghulam Dastgir briefed the delegation about the economic zone.

The Chinese delegation was told that federal government has started work on supply of electricity, gas and other necessary facilities to the zone. The economic zone which is being constructed under CPEC will generate over three hundred thousand direct and indirect jobs.

The minister communicated these view while addressing an abnormal state Chinese assignment at Planning Commission here on Tuesday. The 60-part assignment was going by Li Xuedong, Deputy Director General, Department of International Affairs, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People’s Republic of China, contains senior authorities from NDRC, National Railway Administration, Chinese speculators and delegates of China EXIM Bank and China Development Bank.