BEIJING - China hopes to sign a deal in November to supply reactors to Pakistan for six new nuclear power plants, the Xinhua News Agency said Friday.

The plants would be built within 10 years, Xinhua said, citing an unidentified Pakistani official. It didn't give a price for the deal.

China and Pakistan are close allies.

The planned power plants each would have a capacity of 300 megawatts, according to Xinhua.

China helped Pakistan construct a 300-megawatt nuclear power station at Chashma in Punjab province in 1999. A second facility is under construction at the same site.