China plans to spend $46 billion in Pakistan on a range of projects that are shown below in different images.

 

Laborers load goods into a truck in Pakistan. China plans to spend $46 billion in Pakistan on an array of projects, including a 1,700-mile trade route to the Arabian Sea

 

Chinese engineers work on a bridge in the Karakorum mountain range in Pakistan. Some of the tunnels are inscribed with the phrase “Pak-China Friendship Tunnel.”

 

The Karakorum Highway, one of the world’s most dangerous thoroughfares, passes through a tunnel in the Karakorum mountain range. Chinese engineers are adding bridges, guardrails and concrete overhangs to funnel landslides and avalanches away from travel lanes.

 

Chinese engineers work on the Karakorum Highway near Attabad Lake. The lake was created in 2010 when a landslide damned the Hunza River, flooding the Karakorum Highway and surrounding villages.

 

A view of the Attabad Lake in the Karakorum mountain range. China has just built four large tunnels on the south end of the 13-mile lake to reopen the highway.

 

Construction work is seen in the Karakorum mountain range. Analysts say the Chinese investment represents a major opportunity to jump-start Pakistan’s economy, which is thought to be primed for growth.

 

Men travel on a boat with a van loaded with chickens while crossing the Attabad Lake. Pakistanis are eager to ship more medicinal herbs, textiles, gemstones and yak meat to China.

 

Shair Karim, 50, works in his field on the Karakorum Highway. China is promising Pakistan 18 new energy projects to mitigate the country’s pressing electricity shortage.

 

A herd of yak moves along the Karakorum Highway.

 

Shopkeeper Arman Amin, 40, works at his shop along the Karakorum Highway.

 

A flock of sheep moves along the Karakorum Highway.

 

The Chinese flag flies on the check post at the Khunjerab Pass on the border between Pakistan and China.

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