Belt and road corridors see more technology and industrial parks as China’s influence spreads
China has built 52 industrial parks in cooperation with other countries as it continues to implement its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’
Technology and industrial parks are spreading rapidly along belt and road corridors.
Overseas, China has built 52 industrial parks in cooperation with other countries, according to the China Centre for Globalisation. These range from traditional research and business parks to the ambitious Pakistan corridor.
Pakistan seems destined to become a tech laboratory, according to a Dawn report detailing the China and Pakistan governments’ Plan for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
“Thousands of acres of agricultural land will be leased out to Chinese enterprises to set up ‘demonstration projects’ in areas ranging from seed varieties to irrigation technology,” the
report explained.
It adds that a full system of monitoring and surveillance would be built in a number of cities from Peshawar to Karachi, with 24 hour video recordings on roads and busy marketplaces for law
and order.
A national fibre optic backbone would also be built, not only for internet traffic, but also terrestrial TV broadcasts that would “cooperate with Chinese media in the ‘dissemination of Chinese culture’,” the Dawn report adds.
