How to review the utilities in Pakistan.

Public utility is the general term for various businesses that serve people's daily life, which possesses the basic characteristics of various enterprises. It is commonly referred to as urban infrastructure and municipal services, which mainly involves environmental sanitation, transportation, water supply, electricity, gas distribution and supply, and other public daily services. Public utilities are an indispensable part of people's lives and are also the basic conditions for urban development and survival. It measures the country's economic development level and the resident life index. In addition, public utilities can improve labor productivity throughout the city, improve people's quality of life, and create favorable living conditions for residents.

Due to the public welfare of utility, it is necessary to strengthen its supervision. In addition, the infrastructure is also the key to build the "Belt and Road". The supervision of public utilities has already had relatively mature experience in developed countries, which is worth learning for all countries in the world. For example, the United States tends to establish an independent public utility institution in order to improve the regulation of utilities. However, the policies for regulating public utilities vary from country to country because of the geographical location, land area, climate differences, etc., especially the economic and political systems. This article will take Pakistan as an example to explore how the country will regulate its utility business.

The relationship between China and Pakistan has always been favorable, and the strategic pace of cooperation between the two countries is accelerating. According to the "China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Construction Agreement", Pakistan received a project grant of US$45.6 billion in November 2014, which aimed to build various public utilities including roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines, and communication optical cables. In addition, the Pakistani government also announced the "2015 Power Generation Policy", which applied to new energy utilities projects such as hydropower, coal, fuel and natural gas. In the financial budget of 2014-2015, the Pakistani government carried out the plan of transportation infrastructure development, covering 74 public utility projects including roads, bridges, tunnels to regional roads.

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