Coal plant to power Pakistan by 2019

Four million Pakistani families will benefit once it is operational, with crucial diversity added to country's energy supply

KARACHI, Pakistan - During a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Hub coal-fire power plant built in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan in March, Wang Binghua, chairman of China's State Power Investment Corp that is participating in the project's construction, said the plant will benefit both the Pakistani government and local people after its completion in 2019.

The coal-fire power plant project, one of the priority projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, is being constructed and invested by the China Power International Holding, a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corp, and Pakistan's Hub Power Co, with a total cost of $2 billion.