A Chinese company is to build 44 15-floor buildings in Cabinda
City, capital of the Cabinda Province in Angola.
The "China International Fund" company will build the buildings
with 5,000 apartments in Yabi village, 18 kilometers south of the
provincial capital.
At a ceremony held yesterday for the launching of the first
stone of the project in the city, the Angolan minister of
urbanization and environment, Diakupuna Sita Jose, said that the
Angolan government will build 200,000 residences countrywide until
the year 2008.
He said the residences will be built in the ambit of the
cooperation with China, and bank loans will be provided for
acquisition.
The minister said the Angolan government, through the National
Reconstruction Department, will coordinate the operational
aspects.
The representative of the Chinese firm, Ju Lizao, said the
planning and projecting of the city will be carried out according
to the urban concepts of developed countries of Asia and Europe,
combined with the type of life and architectonic characteristics of
the country.
Ju said the urbanization project of Cabinda City will employ
4,000 Angolans and 1,000 Chinese with minimum costs but with better
quality. The project will be finished in 30 months.
(Xinhua News Agency March 8, 2006)
