Chinese investment being invited in industrial sectors.

LAHORE -- Pakistan-China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCJCCI) has planned to bring investment from China in the eight potential industrial sectors including furniture, handicrafts, textile, fertilizers, cement, glasswork energy and pharmaceuticals.

Talking to media here Sunday, the Joint Chamber's President Shah Faisal Afridi emphasized to lay down a long-term strategy to maintain a sustainable process for paving way of joint ventures between Pakistan

and China under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The CPEC, he added, was the dynamic portfolio of various projects with the investment started from $ 46 billion and now reached up to $ 59 billion with the addition of new projects.

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor was basically a framework of regional connectivity that would not only benefit the countries of China and Pakistan but also have positive impacts on Iran, Afghanistan, India, Central Asian Republics and the overall region, he maintained.

The mega project was going to provide...