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Italian construction company CMC has won a contract for a tunnel project for a water supply program in southwest China's Yunnan province, China's biggest city water supply project under construction.
The contract is worth 296 million yuan and the company is obliged to dig tunnels totaling 21.8 km in length.
Experts say CMC, an engineering multinational with a history of more than 100 years, won the job thanks to its Tunnel Boring Machines, efficient mechanic tunnel diggers, and its sophisticated engineering technology.
The water supply program is intended to divert water from a reservoir under construction to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan. The construction project will help Yunnan double its existing water supply capacity after completion by 2005.
The water diversion program, including a related tap water plant and the expenditure for resettling residents to make way for the reservoir, is expected to cost nearly four billion yuan.
The whole water diversion line totals 97.5 km in length, and cuts through a number of hills.
Fausto Fausetty, manager of CMC overseas engineering department, said as the only foreign contractor for the water diversion project, CMC hoped to fulfil the tunnel contract.
CMC has completed 400 million U.S. dollars worth of engineering contracts since it entered China in 1988, and the tunnels it has dug total 140 km in length.
(Xinhua News Agency April 19, 2002)
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