CPEC's high-quality development to play important role in revitalization of Pakistan: Chinese Scholar.

BEIJING -- The construction of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (PEC) has entered a new stage of high-quality development, which will continue to play an important role in the revitalization of Pakistan, said Cheng Xizhong, a visiting professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law.

"China and Pakistan will complete the projects under construction in time, create more jobs for Pakistanis, vigorously improve people's livelihood, strengthen cooperation in industrial parks construction, human resource training, poverty alleviation, medical and health care, agriculture and other fields, and continuously release the great potential of CPEC and realize common development and progress," he said in his article published by China Economic Net (CEN).

He said that the final Take-over Certificate (TOC) issuing ceremony of Peshawar-Karachi Motorway (PKM) Project (Sukkur-Multan section), the largest transportation infrastructure project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) undertaken by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), was held in Multan, marking a formal opening to traffic and a perfect implementation of the project.

The PKM highway project is the abbreviation of Peshawar-Karachi Expressway. The expressway starts from Karachi in the south, passes through Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan, Lahore, Islamabad and other cities, and ends at Peshawar in the north, with a total length of 1,152 km.

PKM was originally planned to start from Karachi, Pakistan's largest city in the south, and reach Lahore, the second largest city in the north. Now it is planned to extend to Peshawar, an important city in the northwest border. GDP of the areas along the project accounts for more than 90% of the total amount of Pakistan, with a population of 138 million. After completion, it will become an economic artery connecting the northern and southern part of Pakistan.

CSCEC has undertaken the PKM project...