- Upon returning home, Hamza joined a local firm partnering with Chinese suppliers, earning approximately Rs140,000 per month, well above Pakistan’s average salary for vocational graduates.
- Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, recently shared at a TVET Symposium in China that only 6% of Pakistan’s workforce holds formal vocational qualifications, while annual TVET enrollment stands at just 458,000.
- In their Joint Statement on May 26, 2026, China committed to delivering on the plan of offering 3,000 training opportunities to Pakistan between 2025 and 2029, and Pakistan commends China’s cooperation philosophy of “giving people both fish and fishing skills”.
Quiet engine of CPEC 2.0 reshaping Pakistan’s industry
