(중국) 중국 시진핑 파키스탄에 460억불짜리 초고속도로 원조

출처: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32377088

2 hours ago: April 20 2015

China's Xi Jinping to unveil $46bn super highway to Pakistan 중국 시진핑 파키스탄에 460억 달러(한화 46조원 상당) 짜리 초고속도로 지원(투자)

People in Balochistan remain sceptical that Chinese investment in Pakistan will help them, as Shahzeb Jillani reports 발코치스탄 사람들은 중국의 파키스탄 투자가 자신들에게 도움이 될런지 회의적이라고, 샤흐젭 질라니는 보도하고 있다.

China's President Xi Jinping is on a two-day visit to Pakistan, where he is expected to announce investment of $46bn (£30.7bn). 중국주석 시진핑이 이틀 일정의 파키스탄을 방문하고 있는데, 그는 460억 달러 투자를 발표할 것으로 기대를 모으고 있다.

The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies. 투자의 초점은 중국-파키스탄 경제통로, 즉 양국 사이에 도로, 철도, 파이프라인의 네트워크를 건설하는 데 있다.

They will run some 3,000km (1,865 miles) from Gwadar in Pakistan to China's western Xinjiang region. 이 네트워크는 파키스탄의 그와달에서 중국서부 신지앙(新疆) 지역까지 연결되는 3천키로이다.

The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond. 이 프로젝트로 인해 중국은 인도양과 그 너머까지 직접 접근할 수 있게 된다. (역자註: 이 부분을 대하니, 중국의 파키스탄 투자 이면에는 인도양을 위시한 인도를 견제하기 위한 복안이 있는 것으로 보여진다.)

This marks a major advance in China's plans to boost its economic influence in Central and South Asia, correspondents say, and far exceeds US spending in Pakistan. 이 프로젝트는 중국이 중남 아시아에서 영향력을 제고하겠다는 계획에서 큰 진전을 의미하며, 파키스탄에 대한 미국의 투자를 훨씬 능가하는 것이 된다고, 통신원은 얘기한다.

"Pakistan, for China, is now of pivotal importance. This has to succeed and be seen to succeed," Reuters quoted Mushahid Hussain Sayed, chairman of the Pakistani parliament's defence committee, as saying. 중국에게 파키스탄은 이제 엄청 중요한 존재이다. 그래서 이 프로젝트는 성공해야 하는 것이고 마침내 성공하게 될 것으로 보인다고, 로이터 통신은 파키스탄 국방위원회 위원장 무샤히드 후사인 사옛의 말을 인용하여 보도했다.

Pakistan, for its part, hopes the investment will boost its struggling economy and help end chronic power shortages. 파키스탄 측에선 중국의 이번 투자가 자국의 불황을 겪고 있는 경제를 타개하고 만성적인 전력난을 종식시킬 것이라 전망하고 있다.

Analysis: M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad

Is Pakistan on the verge of becoming the Asian Tiger Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said it would become when he was last in power in 1997?

China plans to inject some $46bn - just a little less than three times the entire foreign direct investment Pakistan has received since 2008. Many say Mr Sharif's penchant for "thinking big" and China's increasing need to control maritime trade routes may well combine to pull off an economic miracle in Pakistan over the next four years, when Pakistani officials say most of the projects being finalised today will be well under way.

But there are questions over Pakistan's ability to absorb this investment given its chronic problems with militancy, separatism, political volatility and official corruption.

China is worried about violence from ethnic Uighurs in its mostly Muslim north-western Xinjiang region and fears hardline separatists could team up with Uighur Islamic militants fighting alongside members of Pakistan's Taliban.

In Pakistan, a decade-old separatist insurgency in Balochistan province, where the economic corridor starts, makes that area extremely volatile. Many observers believe however that the incentive of an economic miracle may make Islamabad work a bit harder to stabilise the situation.

Leaders are also expected to discuss co-operation on security.

Mr Xi will spend two days holding talks with his counterpart Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other ministers. He will address parliament on Tuesday.

Deals worth some $28bn are ready to be signed during the visit, with the rest to follow.

Under the CPEC plan, China's government and banks will lend to Chinese companies, so they can invest in projects as commercial ventures.

A network of roads, railways and energy developments will eventually stretch some 3,000km (1,865 miles).

Some $15.5bn worth of coal, wind, solar and hydro energy projects will come online by 2017 and add 10,400 megawatts of energy to Pakistan's national grid, according to officials.

A $44m optical fibre cable between the two countries is also due to be built.

Mr Xi will hold talks with Pakistan's president and prime minister

Pakistan, meanwhile, hopes the investment will enable it to transform itself into a regional economic hub.

Ahsan Iqbal, the Pakistani minister overseeing the plan, told the AFP news agency that these were "very substantial and tangible projects which will have a significant transformative effect on Pakistan's economy".

Mr Xi is also expected to discuss security issues with Mr Sharif, including China's concerns that Muslim separatists from Xinjiang are linking up with Pakistani militants.

"China and Pakistan need to align security concerns more closely to strengthen security co-operation," he said in a statement to Pakistani media on Sunday.

"Our co-operation in the security and economic fields reinforce each other, and they must be advanced simultaneously."