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Macao finances Guangxi project to ensure water supply

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-11-26 20:37

MACAO: Officials from Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Ministry of Water Resources of the central government signed a formal agreement here on Thursday to financially support Datengxia Hydroelectric Project in China's southwest Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, aiming to safeguard Macao's water supply in the long term.

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Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of Macao SAR, and Jiao yong, vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources of the central government, attended the signing ceremony.

According to the agreement, Macao SAR will provide 800 million RMB to support the project, which would be mainly used for the relocation of residents and for the soil and water conservation in the affected areas due to the construction.

Macao has been threatened by the salinity problem in recent years due to drought upriver. Although Macao's water supply has been ensured every year thanks to the relieving measures of neighboring province and the support of central government, it is of vital importance to fundamentally solve such a problem.

Lau Si Io, Secretary for Transport and Public of the SAR, said at the signing ceremony that Datengxia Hydroelectric Project, which costs a total of 25 billion RMB and is going to take nine years to complete, is the long-term solution.