Saturday, October 17, 2009

China to continue its assistance to Cambodian infrastructure: FM

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- China said it will continue to provide financial assistance to Cambodia to develop projects of infrastructure in the country, Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said on Saturday.

"Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for bilateral talks and China will continue to support Cambodia to push economic, social and infrastructure development,"Hor Namhong told reporters at Phnom Penh International Airport after the delegation led by Prime Minister Hun Sen returned home from China.

"The fund will be used to build roads, bridges, irrigation systems and hydro powers, expand electricity on outskirts of Phnom Penh and also in rural areas to help poor and improve people's living conditions," Hor said.

Moreover, Hor added that the Chinese Premier said during the meeting that Chinese government will provide 100 million RMB yuan (about 14.65 million U.S. dollars) to Cambodia for its government to help develop and restore infrastructure in the typhoon Ketsana-hit regions.

The visit of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to China this time is fruitful and brings benefits for the country and people, Hor added.

Hor told reporters that Prime Minister Hun Sen attended the opening ceremony of the 10th Western China International Economy and Trade Fair (WCIETF) in Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan Province and also met with Liu Qibao, secretary of the Communist Party of China Sichuan Provincial Committee.

"Sichuan authorities also provided 50 water pumps, 30 tractors,10 trucks for serving agricultural fields. They also provided scholarship for training our officials and students in their province," Hor added.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Chinese Govt for continue more aid to cambodia, infrastructure assistance and more militray aid please....

Anonymous said...

I think China will make cambodia state to become as their colony for sure, well, it's better than "evil US" and other greedy Neighbors country, so, watch out Viet-thief and Thai-thief....

Anonymous said...

Viet will make a big Fence between it and kissing Hun Sen ass not to do so....

Anonymous said...

Lets hope that cheap electricity is available soon.
So far it seems that people are being ripped off again with high prices.

Anonymous said...

Becareful because what is the catch or what are their their aims? One thing we know though that everything is not for free. Could this be another way of using their model though? cheers