BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese consortium that includes Sino Great Wall International Engineering Co. and Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group has won a 2.7 billion U.S. dollar (about 18.781 billion yuan) contract recently to build a 133-storey twin towers in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
The twin towers, which have a total floor area of 1,563,063 square meters and rise to a height of 560 meters, will be the tallest twin-tower building in the world.
The project, expected to take about 60 months, was co-invested by Macao-based SunKian Ip Group and Cambodia’s Thai Boon Rong Group.
The twin towers will accommodate hotel, shopping mall, offices, an exhibition hall, theater, restaurants and an underground parking garage.
Enditem (Edited by Yang Yifan, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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