Chinese construction company to reconstruct Lahore Airport
A Chinese construction company is going to reconstruct the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, after winning a contract worth $382 million.
According to the Chinese newspaper Peoples Daily, the contract worth $382 was awarded to China Construction company, Third Engineering Bureau. It has been planned that this airport will officially be the largest once it is re-constructed.
Several projects in Pakistan, including Karachi-Lahore Motorway’s section Sukkur and Multan, Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore and The Centaurus Hotel in Islamabad were all undertaken by the Third Engineering Bureau.
“It is the largest project that the Third Engineering Bureau has undertaken overseas, marking another important achievement in Belt and Road construction,” the newspaper, which is a Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, said in its report.
Prior to this, the same Chinese company was awarded a number of major projects in Pakistan including the Karachi-Lahore Expressway between Sukkur and Multan, Lahore’s Arfa Software Technology Park, and The Centaurus Hotel.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has championed what China formally calls the “One Belt, One Road” or OBOR initiative to build a new Silk Road linking Asia, Africa and Europe, a landmark programme to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects including railways, ports and power grids.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the flagship programme of OBOR. The construction of an international airport in Gwadar is also part of CPEC.