Construction on a steam-pressing brick factory costing 23 million
yuan (US$2.78 million) to be funded by
Jilin
Province commenced recently in Lhasa, capital city of southwest
China's
Tibet Autonomous Region.
To
date, construction has started on 26, or more than one third, of
the 71 projects to be built in Tibet with assistance from other
parts of China, a regional government official said.
The projects were decided according to a decision made at the
fourth meeting of the central government in June this year on
boosting development in Tibet.
Statistics show that two road projects built in Lhasa have been
completed. Hunan and Hubei provinces provided 44 million yuan
(US$5.32 million) for highway projects in the Shannan Prefecture of
Tibet, making up 70 percent of the planned amount. The Ngari
Prefecture has signed agreements with Guangxi, Inner Mongolia,
Xinjiang, Hebei and Shaanxi on projects to be built with their
aid.
(Xinhua News
Agency November 5, 2001)