LTP provides a conceptual framework for CPEC. This plan is national plan approved by both Chinese and Pakistani government. It will effectively match relevant national plans of China and as well as Pakistan vision 2025. This plan is effective until 2030 and will provide macro guidance for implementation of CPEC (Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Interior and Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms)

The historical love between China and Pakistan is exemplary and both have been supporting each other in the times of test and tribulations. In the same vein, China, our brotherly partner, has intended to invest at a time in 2013 when Pakistan had severe energy shortfalls and no other country was ready to wriggle us out from the economic conundrum we have been facing for the last decade. (Chief Editor’s Note)