{"id":361691,"date":"2020-07-07T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T06:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361691"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T06:53:34","slug":"china-firm-signs-1-billion-pok-power-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-firm-signs-1-billion-pok-power-project\/","title":{"rendered":"China firm signs $1 billion PoK power project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese company on Monday signed a $1.5 billion agreement with Pakistan to set up a hydropower project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Imran Khan witnessed the signing of the agreement with China Gezhouba for the \u201cAzad Pattan Hydropower Project\u201d at a ceremony here.<\/p>\n<p>The project is located in the Sadhanoti district of PoK on the Jhelum river and is expected to be completed by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The CPEC, which connects Gwadar Port in Balochistan with China\u2019s Xinjiang province, is the flagship project of Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Originally valued at $46 billion, the CPEC projects were worth $62 billion in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese company on Monday signed a $1.5 billion agreement with Pakistan to set up a hydropower project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Prime Minister Imran Khan witnessed the signing of the agreement with China Gezhouba for the \u201cAzad Pattan Hydropower Project\u201d at a ceremony here. The project is located in the Sadhanoti district of PoK on the Jhelum river and is expected to be completed by 2026. The CPEC, which connects Gwadar Port in Balochistan with China\u2019s Xinjiang province, is the flagship project of Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}