Pakistan’s face as a home for Chinese Investment is bound to strengthen in the upcoming years. China Mobile Pakistan, Zong, which has already invested over 2 Billion Dollars in Pakistan over the years, has reaffirmed its commitment of investing 200 Million Dollars.

It is also mention-able that the company was the first to invest in 3G and 4G licenses. Its marketing better than most, its events the grandest of them all, the company aims at expanding its network by adding 3G and 4G sites, currently predicted to be near 10500 by the end of 2017.

There 4G subscribers reached 2 Million, while it has expanded its 4G coverage to over 300 cities across Pakistan.

Up next in its plans are the socially cut off Rural Areas. The decision was announced on its meeting thanks to the out of the World success and increasing revenue.

China Mobile Pakistan

China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak) is a 100% owned subsidiary of China Mobile Communications Corporation. The pioneering overseas set up of China Mobile came through acquisition of a license from Millicom to operate a GSM network in Pakistan.

Started in 2007 with a market share of only 2%, Zong has seen outstanding growth in the last few years to increase it by 10 folds to about 20%. Currently, CMPak engages in the provision of cellular mobile voice and data services to the Pakistani market through 2G, 4Gand 4G technologies.

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is one of the global e-commerce giant. It seems quite interested in the information technology market in Pakistan. Why not? The information technology in Pakistan is growing rapidly and many young and talented people are getting associated with this field. This is making Pakistan a very HOT DESTINATION for investment.

Alibaba is also impressed with the growth of Pakistani economy and specially e-commerce sector, taking the advantage of the correct time and circumstanced Alibaba intends to invest in Pakistan. Before it does so, it is testing the response of the market by launching some of its ventures.

Though recently, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group met where they discussed about World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which the premier invited Alibaba to explore the growing e-commerce opportunities in Pakistan, the new initiative has nothing to do with it.

It is not the result of meeting but an interest that has developed in Alibaba’s authorities to invest in Pakistani market after observing its current status.

Alibaba has already launched a UCWeb last year in Pakistan. It is a mobile internet company that provides mobile browsing service with the help of UC Browser. The initiative was launched formally.

There is another venture that is no yet formally launched but it has set its step in Pakistan and that is AliExpress. It is an e-commerce ancillary that works in the retail segment in different countries.

AliExpress seems to be a great success already. It has managed to bag 15,000 orders per day in Pakistan. The group keeps looking forward for more opportunities, which is the reason it has recently signed an agreement with local company. According to the agreement the local company intends to provide vendors for smooth operations in Punjab’s first and second-tier cities initially.

The training sessions and work on necessary infrastructure is yet not completed and is in process that is the reason AliExpress has not been launched in Pakistan formally.

Andrea Huang is the Mobile Business Group Head of Marketing in Emerging Markets of Alibaba. According to her UCWeb has acquired 25.3% market share in Pakistan, second after Google Chrome and Firefox.

Huang during an interview over Skype has said,

“We have decided to fully market our product here as we are successfully leading in China, India and Indonesia with a global customer base of 420 million active users. The immense growth in 3G and 4G connections in Pakistan, coupled with a population of over 190 million, was the biggest attraction for formally launching the group’s product.”

Huang also said during the interview,

“It is not easy to penetrate Pakistan’s market in the presence of other web browsers; the biggest challenge is to widen the user base and provide users the best available services within the browser.”

She further added,

“For this, we are investing in our product to keep finding the demand and better services. At present, we don’t have a formal office in Pakistan, but once we expand out of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, we will hire a team and open up offices in Pakistan.”

The cloud computing technology was introduced by UC Browser. It became the first ever mobile browser to do so. They took this initiative back in 2004. Huang remained silent about the plans of authorities of UC Web that include Pakistan but she assured that they will keep investing in the upcoming years.

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Chairman Alibaba Group Jack Ma met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. —Nafees Zakaria/Twitter

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif met the chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma on sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The two met this Wednesday and during the meeting Jack showed great interest in investing in e-commerce sector of Pakistan.

Jack Ma has been reported to have said,

“We are ready to invest for establishing an e-commerce platform in Pakistan. Our company was closely monitoring progress of Pakistan’s e-commerce sector.”

Ma also added that he  really wishes to invest in small scale industries of Pakistan. According to stats that were provided by the chairman of Alibaba to the Prime Minster, the Alibaba group has been aiding 60 million companies across the world.

He also said,

” China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would provide opportunities for promotion of the bilateral economic ties between China and Pakistan.”

The Prime Minister was invited by Jack to visit Guangzhou, China where Alibaba has headquarters. On the occasion Nawaz Sharif could not stop himself in praising efforts of Alibaba and the services of Jack.

One of China’s most prestigious and top in online commerce that has user range 90 per cent of the consumer-to-consumer market.

Pak-China friendship has benefited both the countries hope this makes the bond stronger and give benefit to all Pakistan eCommerce.

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