China National Electric Engineering Co. Ltd. (
Chinese: 中国电力工程公司 , abbr. CNEEC) is a
state-owned
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engineering company. A specialized engineering services
contractor
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Business roles
* Defense contractor, arms industry which provides weapons or military goods to a government
* General contractor, an individual o ...
; the company focuses in the areas of
Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC), Consultation,
Operation & Maintenance and Rehabilitation in
infrastructural
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and
clean energy solutions for various industrial projects. CNEEC is an international engineering company, which has been listed in the top 225 International Contractors by
USA's
ENR.
China National Electric Engineering Company operates in
Pakistan as through its
wholly-owned subsidiary CNEEC Pakistan which has been a competitive contractor in Pakistan's
energy sector, having completed over 12
construction projects, including power plants and power grids across the country. The company has actively participated towards building the
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a 3,000-km long route linking the
Kashgar
Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan ...
city of China to a
Gwadar Port
The Gwadar Port ( ur, ) is situated on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan and is under the administrative control of the Maritime Secretary of Pakistan and operational control of the China Overseas Port Holding Com ...
in Pakistan. Along the way, the two countries are constructing networks of
highways,
railways and
industrial parks, with a combined investment of $62 billion. Under the frame of
CPEC, The electric company built the first industrial park, the
Rashakhai Special Economic Zone (SEZ), planned to cover an area of 4.04 km
2. Not only the transport route but also a package of extended solutions; the economic zone aims to become a home for
hi-tech innovation companies and a hub for
trade and
logistics, further promoting the
Pak-China Relations with
Economic Stability
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of the local economy and people.
The electric company has been contracted to build a 233
MW power plant in the
Sabal Province of East Malaysia. The $310-million
coal-fired power station
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project in Malaysia was represented to be the first collaboration of a Chinese state-owned company with the
Malaysian
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* Something from or related to Malaysia, a country in Southeast Asia
* Malaysian Malay, a dialect of Malay language spoken mainly in Malaysia
* Malaysian people, people who are identified with the country of Malaysia regar ...
electric utility company,
TNB.
CNEEC was one of the two companies to be
sanctioned by
World Bank Group for 18 months, in October 2020 for fraudulent practices in Zambia.
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In June 2023, CNEEC was
sanctioned by Asian Development Bank (ADB) for 24 months, due to fraudulent practices in one of its projects.
References
External links
Global Website Government-owned companies of China
Construction and civil engineering companies of China