Chinese engineering company digs 1st over-1000m railway tunnel in Laos -- Chinese engineering company completed on Oct. 28 the first over-1000-meter tunnel along the China-Laos railway.
Nateuy No. 1 Tunnel, some 360 km north of Lao capital Vientiane, is located in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha bordering China in the north.
Huang Zongwen, a senior official with the China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group (CREC 5), which is in charge of the tunnel's construction, told Xinhua the construction of the Nateuy No. 1 Tunnel, with 1158 meters, was started on June 3, 2017.
In December 2017, Ban Somsanook No. 2 Tunnel with a length of 301 meters in Laos' Vientiane Province, was bored by the Chinese project contractor Sino Corporation Engineering Bureau 15 Co., Ltd., and became the first completed tunnel along the China-Laos railway route, and the first road and railway tunnel in Lao history.
CMEC signs contract for retirement home project of Alpensia Resort in ROK -- China Machinery Engineering Corp. (CMEC) announced it has joined hands with Malaysia's Alliance Pacific Capital Group (APC) to sign a contract of building a retirement home project at Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, the Republic of Korea (ROK). According to the contract, the project includes the construction and decoration of 5,000 retirement apartments and surrounding green space. The contract value is 499.4 million U.S. dollars and it will start construction after certain requirements are fulfilled. The construction period is planned to be 28 months.
Chinese firm starts construction of phase-II indemnificatory housing project in Belarus -- The commencement ceremony for the second phase of an indemnificatory housing project contracted by Tianjin Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd. of China Energy Engineering Group has recently held in Minsk, Belarus, according to the company’s official website. Located in Minsk city, the project covers a construction area of 5,524 square meters and a residential area of 6,779 square meters, with a work duration of 10.5 months. The project is significant to solving housing problem for local low-income people upon completion
Guinea bauxite project breaks ground -- Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (Chalco) said on its official website that its bauxite project broke ground in Boffa, Guinea, on Oct 28. The mine - Chalco's first overseas bauxite project - holds 1.75 billion metric tons of bauxite, which is used to make aluminum and can be mined for 60 years. The project will see an annual bauxite output of 12 million tons in the first phase and become an important source of Chalco's overseas bauxite resources. On June 8, Chalco signed an agreement with the government of Guinea in Conakry, the nation's capital, to develop the Boffa bauxite project. In an agreement approved by the company's board meeting in May, up to 163.8 U.S. dollars in project capital would be used in mining, port and lightering operations. (Source: China Daily)
China-assisted airport terminal in Nigeria's oil hub ready for use -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Oct. 25 commissioned the newly-built international terminal at the Port Harcourt International Airport, a China-assisted project to boost the country's economic prosperity. Construction of the new 600-million-U.S.-dollar airport terminal in Port Harcourt, the country's oil hub and capital of the southern state of Rivers, is expected to open more convenient air routes. The structure of the two-story terminal building includes the apron, a cargo terminal building, external works, and other ancillary works. The international airport terminal project was executed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).
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