Hassan Daud Butt, formal diplomat at the Pakistani Embassy in China and director of BRI & Regional Studies Global Governance Institute and SDPI, noted that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has actually propelled the economic growth in Pakistan. Gaps in the infrastructure have been shortened, the optical fiber connectivity, people-to-people interaction, seamless trade, connectivity of policies have actually being materialized and manifested. He believes that CPEC is a beacon of hope and one of beacons of economic prosperity.