It’s 9.30am. Professionals and businessmen hasten to clinch their first targets of the day. In one multi-storey building at the thriving Blue Area, Islamabad’s hub of commercial activity, elevators carry customers to a front desk on the first floor. A petite Chinese woman with a pleasant smile is seated beside a cabinet loaded with files.
Zhang Feimin, 27, stares at some papers she’s carrying, trying to learn the rules of business and prepare for her meetings. She is the bank’s latest employee and one of the estimated 12,000 Chinese people working on various projects in Pakistan. The bank has created the position for her to capture the growing business from trade worth over US$12bil (RM38.9bil) and an expected investment of around US$18bil (RM58.3bil) for the establishment of the Pak-China economic corridor. The newly carved-out China Business Wing at this bank came as a window of opportunity for Zhang; she uses her Chinese roots to further the interests of this establishment.
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