ZHENGZHOU, March 15 (Xinhua) -- A large-scale baking soda project with an investment of about 1 billion yuan (147 million U.S. dollars) was put into operation on Friday in central China's Henan Province.
Invested by Henan Zhongyuan Chemical Co. Ltd., the project is expected to produce 400,000 tonnes of baking soda every year, and create an annual revenue of 1 billion yuan.
The project is located in Henan's Tongbai County, often billed the "capital of trona in China" for its rich deposit of the mineral. The mineral was first discovered in the county in the 1970s.
The project is expected to bring the annual production volume of baking soda in Tongbai to over 1.2 million tonnes, making the county one of the largest baking soda production bases in the world, according to local authorities.
The project features an environmentally-friendly technique that will get rid of the gas and liquid waste generated in the production process.
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