{"id":14591,"date":"2023-03-05T22:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T17:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=14591"},"modified":"2023-03-05T22:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T17:26:38","slug":"pakistan-china-coop-to-upgrade-pakistans-steel-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/03\/05\/pakistan-china-coop-to-upgrade-pakistans-steel-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-China coop to upgrade Pakistan\u2019s steel industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan-China coop to upgrade Pakistan\u2019s steel industry<\/strong><\/h2>\n

China can transfer its technology and equipment to Pakistan to promote the upgrading of \u201cPakistan \u2018Steel Industry\u201d ,highlighted LI Sheng ,General Manager of the Pakistani Branch of China First Metallurgical Group co.,Ltd.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith China\u2019s transfer of technology and equipment, Pakistan\u2019s steel industry can be more concentrated and more environmentally friendly, because it can make better use of the existing low-quality mineral resources,\u201d Li said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe output of the steel industry in Pakistan is far from enough to meet the needs of its domestic market. According to Steel Statistical Yearbook, 2020 and data from World Steel Association, Pakistan\u2019s domestic demand for steel and iron averages 7.3 million tons per year, while its annual production is only 3.8 million tons.<\/p>\n

To narrow the demand \u2013supply gap, Pakistan has been importing from different countries, incurring excessive costs.<\/p>\n

The quality of Pakistan\u2019s Mineral resources is one of the main reasons for its dependence on steel imports, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, the mineral resources are relatively concentrated in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the situation is relatively complicated, making it difficult to well exploit the mineral resources.
\nWhile on the face of it, Pakistan\u2019s steel industry is relatively backward, the overall potential for development is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Li Sheng analyzed, \u201cIn the upstream, its domestic mineral resources are rich and coal and iron ore reserves are huge; in the downstream, Pakistan\u2019s real estate and construction services industry is developing rapidly, and the steel demand is increasing, which is very conducive to the development of the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pakistan has a mountainous terrain covering more than 60% of the country Historically frequent geological activities have generated a large number of mineral resources.<\/p>\n

According to Li\u2019s research, Pakistani iron ore is stored across the country mainly in Punjab and Baluchistan, with proven mining reserve of about 950 million tons.<\/p>\n

Highlighting that the steel industry is the backbone of Pakistan\u2019s development and contributes 5% to the national economy, Wajid Bukhari, Secretary General of Pakistan Association of Large Steel Producers (PALSP) told that over 20 major steel industrial units were struggling towards diversification. It is essential to improve the steel competitiveness of Pakistan at the root level.<\/p>\n

Hassan Duad Butt, senior advisor of FF Steel highlighted that the Belt and Road Initiative and the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor have driven the robust development of Pakistan\u2019s construction market and industrial adjustment.<\/p>\n

The development of industry brings greater demand for steel, which requires Pakistan\u2019s steel industry to expand its production capacity.\u00a0The co-operation with China will address the existing of backward technology and low efficiency in Pakistan\u2019s steel industry, which is a direction for the complementary development of both countries, concluded Hassan.<\/p>\n

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Sources : APP<\/p>\n

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Pakistan-China coop to upgrade Pakistan\u2019s steel industry China can transfer its technology and equipment to Pakistan to promote the upgrading of \u201cPakistan \u2018Steel Industry\u201d ,highlighted LI Sheng ,General Manager of the Pakistani Branch of China First Metallurgical Group co.,Ltd. \u201cWith China\u2019s transfer of technology and equipment, Pakistan\u2019s steel industry can be more concentrated and more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2298,2309,2299],"tags":[2463,2391,2836],"class_list":["post-14591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-world","tag-china","tag-pakistan","tag-steel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14593,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions\/14593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}