Chinese company to build solar power plant in Ukraine -- China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) on April 6 signed a contract with Ukraine's largest private energy holding Donbas Fuel and Energy Company (DTEK) on building a solar power plant in Ukraine. Under the deal, the CMEC will build a solar power plant with a total capacity of generating 200 megawatts of electricity in Nikopol city in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region.
Chinese company signs deal to upgrade Ukraine's Black Sea port -- The Beijing-based China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) on April 6 signed an agreement to implement a dredging project at Ukraine's southern Black Sea port of Chornomorsk. The CHEC won the tender on March 14, beating four companies from Ukraine and Europe with a bid price of 404 million hryvnyas (about 15.6 million U.S. dollars).
China, Philippines consortium to build "new" Marawi in southern Philippines -- A consortium of the Chinese and Filipino firms will build the "new" Marawi, the former main battle area in a five-month war against Islamist militants in the southern Philippines, authorities said on April 6. Eduardo del Rosario, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, said the members of the new Marawi consortium are composed of five Chinese and three local firms and led by China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd.
Direct flights connect China's Yunnan, Chiang Mai of Thailand -- Ruili Airlines in southwest China's Yunnan Province launched a direct air route linking Yunnan's Xishuangbanna and Chiang Mai in Thailand.
The flight, operated by a B-737 aircraft, was inaugurated on April 4, according to the Ruili Airlines based in Kunming, provincial capital of Yunnan.
Huawei launches OpenLab in Paris to help boost domestic companies' digital transformation -- Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has launched Paris OpenLab as part of its plan to create an open system offering innovative solutions to pave the way for digital transformation and promote industry ecosystem development, it said in a statement released on April 4. The OpenLab Paris, the second such platform of Huawei in Europe following that in Germany, will " support competitiveness of French companies" by improving expertise in retail, smart city, connected car and internet fields.
Lao gov't, Chinese firm ink pact for 1st expressway in Laos -- The Laos-China Joint Expressway Development, China Yunnan Construction and Investment Holding Group ("YCIH") and the Lao Planning and Investment Ministry signed a concession agreement here on April 4 for Laos' first expressway. The Laos-China Joint Expressway Development, a joint venture between the Lao government and the YCIH, is to invest, construct and operate the expressway project on basis of "BOT" (Build-Operate-Transfer) in accordance with the Concession Agreement.
Chinese firm begins building cassava plant in SE Cambodia -- Green Leader (Cambodia) Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of China's Hong Kong-based Green Leader Holdings Group, on April 1 began the construction of its first cassava processing plant in Cambodia's southeastern Kratie province. The 20-million-U.S. dollar plant will be built on the parcel of 20 hectares in a Special Economic Zone in Snuol district, and will be capable of processing 130,000 tons of cassava starch a year when completed.
China-Laos railway cross-border tunnel construction proceeds smoothly -- The construction of cross-border Friendship Tunnel on China-Laos railway is proceeding smoothly, the Chinese company in charge of the project said on April 1.
"We have made a 300-meter entrance into the cross-border mountains, and will have half of the job done in the Lao side at the end of this year," Wang Xiaodong, Chinese communist party secretary of the construction unit boring the Friendship Tunnel from the Lao side, told Xinhua in northern Lao border town Boten, some 400 km north of lao capital Vientiane.
China Railway No. 2 Group Co., Ltd, which is responsible for construction of the northernmost and southernmost sections of China-Laos railway, is boring the China-Laos Friendship Tunnel from each side.
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