China-aided highway changes life of Pakistanis

    Updated: 2015-04-19 18:38

    (Xinhua/chinadaily.com.cn)

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    China-aided highway changes life of Pakistanis

    Pakistani employees of the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) pose for a photo at an entrance of a tunnel in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, March 24, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua]

    ISLAMABAD - "I really love working here for the Chinese company," Abass Ali, a Pakistani employee of the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), told Xinhua at a construction site next to a barrier lake that is two hours drive from the northern city of Gilgit.

    The ongoing construction work by the CRBC is the last phase of a project undertaken by the Chinese company to renovate a 335-km stretch of the Karakoram Highway, the only overland connection between China and Pakistan at present.

    The highway, built with fund from China during 1966-1978, is the only economic lifeline for Pakistan's northern region. Hundreds of Chinese engineers died while building the road.

    Ali and two of his brothers have been working for the CRBC since 2008 when the CRBC started to upgrade a section of the highway that became increasingly dilapidated because of poor maintainance.

    Salaries from the job at CRBC made it possible for Ali and his brothers each to build their own houses, and allow them to buy a car for their father. Meanwhile, they also use part of the money they received from the Chinese company to support the education of their two younger siblings.

    According to Ali, who works as a driver for the CRBC, his two brothers were first hired as general laborers for the company because they were then without any specific skills.

    The company then trained them respectively to operate loader and cement mixer, and they were moved to the higher-paid new positions afterward, Ali said.

    Ali's family is among the thousands of local families that have seen their lives changing for the better thanks to job opportunities at the CRBC.

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    Schedule

    Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan and attend the Asian-African Summit and activities commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Bandung Conference in Indonesia from April 20 to 24.

    April 22
    Attend the opening ceremony of the Asian-African Summit;
    Meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo;

    April 23
    Bilateral meetings;
    Attend the closing ceremony of the Asian-African Summit;

    April 24
    Historical walk from Savoy Homann Hotel to Gedung Merdeka;
    Attend activities commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Bandung Conference;

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