by Yuan Xiaona

File photo: Karot hydropower project

CHENGDU, July 11(Gwadar Pro) – Karot hydropower project will embrace a total of 118 Chinese technicians as a chartered airplane of Air China to Islamabad departed from Chengdu, China at 16:08 (Beijing Time) on Friday.

The 118 technicians are urgently required by the Karot hydropower project as its construction has entered a key period, according to the developer China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG).

Karot hydropower project is one of the priority projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. With a total investment of 1.74 billion U.S. dollars, it will solve the power supply bottleneck in Pakistan and provide sustainable and stable energy support.

Once completed, the 720-megawatt project will annually produce some 3.2 billion kilowatt-hours of clean power.

In addition to power generation, it will help flood prevention and sediment control, and improve downstream and reservoir areas’ transport services.

The project is expected to create more than 2,000 new jobs, and will spur coordinated and upgraded development in related sectors.

To help Pakistan contain COVID-19, so far CTG has donated two batches of supplies, which included 750,000 surgical masks, ventilators and protection gowns.