{"id":49329,"date":"2014-04-10T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=49329"},"modified":"2014-04-10T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:31:22","slug":"china-to-set-up-two-coal-power-plants-in-pakistan-49329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/china-to-set-up-two-coal-power-plants-in-pakistan-49329\/","title":{"rendered":"China to set up two coal power plants in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49332\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-49332 \" alt=\"China to invest 2 billion dollars in power projects in Pakistan.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/China-Power-Projects-Pakistan-Nationalturk-10.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/China-Power-Projects-Pakistan-Nationalturk-10.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/China-Power-Projects-Pakistan-Nationalturk-10-280x140.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">China to invest 2 billion dollars in power projects in Pakistan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>A Chinese company will set up two power plants in Pakistan with each plant having 1,320MW capacity.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, April 10\/Nationalturk \u2013 In a good news for electricity starved country, a Chinese company will set up two power plants in Pakistan with each plant having 1,320MW capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese group will set up two coal power plants, each of 1,320MW capacity at Gadani in restive Balochistan province of Pakistan. The company is likely to invest around 2 billion US dollars in the project.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in this regard between China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) and Pakistan\u2019s Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB).<\/p>\n<p>CMEC General Manager Li Kan and N A Zuberi of PPIB signed the agreement on behalf of the two groups.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Water and Power Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif was present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Asif said several MoUs had been signed with foreign investors for setting up 10 power projects, with a cumulative capacity of 6,600MW\u00a0 at Gadani town in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<h2>Pakistan facing many hours of power cuts<\/h2>\n<p>Pakistan is facing acute power crisis and people have to face 10-12 hours power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Asif said completion of the coal power projects would help in addressing the problem of load shedding in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded Chinese contribution to Pakistan\u2019s efforts for strengthening economy and power sector.<\/p>\n<p>China is close ally of Pakistan and providing economic and military assistance to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese are already working on 120 projects in Pakistan with around a quarter related to energy.<\/p>\n<p>Conceding that many hours of load shedding was being carried out in different cities and rural areas of the country, Asif stressed the need for energy conservation.<\/p>\n<p>He said 2,250MW of electricity would be added to the system within two months, which will help in reducing load shedding.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese company will set up two power plants in Pakistan with each plant having 1,320MW capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,68,63,51,1,118,101,14],"tags":[45320,2381,67537,67532,67534,67531,67535,67542,67539,67540,636,67541,67533,67538,67536],"class_list":["post-49329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-economy","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-balochistan-province","tag-china","tag-china-machinery-engineering-corporation","tag-chinese-company","tag-chinese-group","tag-electricity-starved-country","tag-gadani","tag-khawaja-mohammad-asif","tag-li-kan","tag-n-a-zuberi","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistans-water-and-power-minister","tag-power-plants","tag-private-power-and-infrastructure-board","tag-us-dollars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}