This article attempts to underscore the extraordinary significance of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the industrialization and economic growth of Pakistan as well as the development and consolidation of China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)—which is a core component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Though Pakistan has previously experimented with SEZs, its scale, outreach and impact on the country’s economy and society remained very limited. Thus, the proposed SEZs under the CPEC offer new opportunities for mutual economic cooperation, investment, human resource development, sustained industrialization and, above all, the consolidation of CPEC. Nevertheless, there are several challenges ranging from structural issues to security problems that the proposed SEZs, in particular, and CPEC, in general, face. The article, thus, provides a comprehensive set of strategies to convert challenges into capabilities.

本文试图强调特别经济区（SEZ）在巴基斯坦的工业化和经济增长以及中巴经济走廊（CPEC）的发展和整合中的非凡意义，这是“一带一路”的核心组成部分倡议（BRI）。尽管巴基斯坦此前曾尝试过经济特区，但其规模，范围和对国家经济和社会的影响仍然非常有限。因此，在CPEC下提议的经济特区为相互经济合作，投资，人力资源开发，持续的工业化以及最重要的是CPEC的合并提供了新的机会。尽管如此，从拟议的经济特区，特别是总体而言，CPEC所面临的结构性问题到安全性问题，仍然存在若干挑战。因此，该文章