Germany Donates 8 Million Euros to Help NW Province Power System

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Germany Donates 8 Million Euros to Help NW Province Power System

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A memo has been signed recently in Lanzhou, capital of Northwest Gansu Province, on the German government providing eight million euros (eight million US dollars) to help build a power system solar energy in rural Gansu.

The project is expected to benefit some 500,000 farmers in remote areas in the province, who suffer shortages of power supply, local officials said.

Gansu Province is sparsely populated and some 890 villages in isolated southern areas have never received electricity before, although the province has invested more than 6 billion yuan (723 million dollars) in last three years to improve the situation.

An official with the provincial government said the German endowment project, which has already started in southwestern Yunnan Province and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is expected to improve local power supply and the education and medical conditions.

The provincial government will also invest 34.76 million yuan (four million dollars) in the initial phase of the project involving Pingliang, Tianshui, Gannan and Lixian County.

Earlier, the German government had donated 15 million Deutsche marks (7.5 million dollars) to help build cash wood, windbreak wood and prevent erosion of arable land in Tianshui City.

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