Month: September 2024

China renovates and quadruples generating capacity of 71 year-old Angolan hydroelectric power station

September 1, 2024 CEN_com 0

The Angolan authorities recently inaugurated the Luachimo hydroelectric power station. The rehabilitation of the hydroelectric scheme required an investment of $212 million, financed with the support of the Chinese government. A subsidiary of China Energy, the China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC), was responsible for rehabilitating the plant, which quadrupled its generating capacity. The relaunch of the hydroelectric power station took place on 17 May 2024. The work commenced in 2017 […]

South Africa: Looking to build sustainable cities using China model

September 1, 2024 CEN_com 0

South Africa wants to build new cities to eradicate poverty, with theChinese model that uses a polycentric policy approach mooted as a possible blueprint off which to base this future plan. South Africa Deputy President Paul Mashatile said one of the lessons the country is learning from fellow BRICS member nations is that they have invested in the creation of new cities as a method to eradicate poverty. He was […]