ISLAMABAD: The early harvest projects under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have created more than 30,000 direct jobs for Pakistanis while the mid-term and long term projects under CPEC are poised to create hundreds of thousand employment opportunties in the country.
According to official documents, the figure of employment opportunities under CPEC would further go up as CPEC would generate around 800,000 jobs over the period of next 15 years.
Presently, the mega energy projects under CPEC portfolio contributed majority of jobs where 16,000 Pakistanis are hired as laborer and engineers.