Zhao Lijian congratulated the Carlo Hydropower Station project to invest in formal commercial operations

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At the "Office of the Foreign Ministry", at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 30, the reporter of the Batong News Agency asked: On June 29, the Pakistan Carlo Hydropower Station was fully put into commercial operations. Can you further introduce the situation? What are the comments of the spokesman about this?

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Zhao Lijian: I congratulated the official business operation of the Carlo Hydropower Station project.

The Carlo Hydropower Station project is the priority implementation project of the China -Pakistan Economic Corridor Energy Cooperation, and it is also the first large hydropower investment project under the corridor framework. The project has been written into a joint statement in China and Pakistan. The builders of China and Pakistan have overcome a series of difficulties and challenges, and the construction lasted for 7 years to complete this project. The total installation of the Carlo Hydropower Station is 720,000 kilowatts, with an average annual power generation of 3.2 billion kilowatt -hours. It will not only meet the electricity demand of about 5 million local population, effectively alleviate Pakistan's power shortage, but also further optimize Pakistan's energy structure. It is expected to save 1.4 million tons of standard coal each year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 3.5 million tons each year. While promoting Pakistan's energy construction and economic and social development, the project will also help global "carbon neutrality" and make new contributions to the global climate change.

China and Pakistan are all -weather strategic partners. The China -Pakistan Economic Corridor, as an important first -test project of the “Belt and Road” and an important platform for comprehensive pragmatic cooperation between the two countries, adheres to the concept of green, openness, and integrity. , High -standard goals. Since its launch, cooperation in various fields under the framework of the China -Pakistan Economic Corridor has achieved fruitful results. China is willing to continue with the Pakistani side, continuous traditional friendship, deepen the pragmatic cooperation of all -all, and promote the continuous flowering and results of the corridor construction, so that bilateral relations, people's heart exchanges, and economic and social development of the two countries will continue to reach a new level.

Foreign Ministry spokesman's office

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