English.news.cn 2015-04-26
Venezuela to build 400,000 new homes with China's Sany, world's No.6 heavy machinery company http://t.co/nzcor8T2A1 pic.twitter.com/Etj90VZK6A
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) 26 april 2015
CARACAS,
April 25 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday the
government will work with Chinese companies to build new housing units as part
of an ambitious plan to provide homes for those without proper or adequate
dwelling in the country.
During an
event in the 23 de Enero slum in the west of Caracas, Maduro announced that his
government has reached a preliminary agreement with Chinese company Sany Heavy
Industry Co. for the latter to participate in the "Great Housing
Mission" that aims to build three million homes in the Latin American
country by 2019.
The
government will sign a contract with Sany, the world's sixth largest heavy
machinery company, to import new equipment so as to accelerate the construction
of at least 400,000 new apartments this year.
"We
are going at a faster pace and we have to install Chinese companies here in our
country to double everything that we are bringing over from China," Maduro
said.
The
Venezuelan leader said that over 220 new cranes imported from China were
already in use for the renovation of residential buildings in poor areas of the
country, under a program called "Barrio Nuevo, Barrio Tricolor."
According
to Ricardo Molina, Venezuela's minister of housing, Chinese companies have
helped build over 14,000 homes in the country in the last three years and
15,000 more are now under construction.
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