The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects have played a "monumental role" in infrastructure development and global connectivity in participating countries and regions. Sinomach as a world-famous Chinese builder has developed a number of overseas projects as it strives for high-quality Belt and Road construction.

Flagship projects of Belt and Road cooperation, along with others of the kind, are expected to help revive growth in the region and spark new possibilities for common development across the world, which would be a precious outcome against the backdrop of the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, a tottering global economy and mounting geopolitical uncertainties.

IPPR to build a studio hall for ARMTV

Sinomach subsidiary China IPPR International Engineering Co Ltd (IPPR) has won the bidding for the studio hall project of Public Television of Armenia (ARMTV), and will undertake project design and the whole process of engineering consultation regarding project management. The project includes a studio, an audience waiting hall, a props library, a director's room and other supporting facilities.

Design sketch of the studio hall of ARMTV in Southeast of Yerevan, capital of Armenia. The project will enrich the cultural life of the local people. [Photo/CAMCE]

IPPR's design highlights a safe and efficient structure and environmental protection and combines classical elements with national symbols, showing modern design and national aesthetics. It is expected to be a new landmark in the capital city of Yerevan.

IPPR to improve international airport in Sao Tome and Principe

IPPR has inked the reconstruction and expansion project of the international airport in Sao Tome, capital of Sao Tome and Principe. The final decision was recently confirmed after more than a year of field research and a large number of project comparisons.

A visual rendering of the international airport in Sao Tome [Photo/CAMCE]

The project aims to improve communications between the country, the sub-region and the rest of the world, provide passenger-handling facilities and equip the airport with aeronautical equipment in line with international standards.

The airport is essential to economic and social development of the country whose insular location makes it all the more necessary to have reliable and regular air links. The lack of an airport that responds to the needs of the country would certainly discourage foreign investors who are undoubtedly needed by the economy for its revival; the country's commercial activity and consequently its balance of trade would surely suffer as a result.

The upgraded airport will improve the country's transportation infrastructure and accelerate the development of local tourism, so as to inject momentum into the improvement of people's living standards and the development of their economy and society.

Nigeria's largest hydropower station makes headway

Unit 2 of the Zungeru hydropower plant is smoothly producing electricity, with the control system, step-up transformer and switch station in good operation, marking another important step in the project's construction.

The project, undertaken by Sinomach subsidiary China National Electric Engineering Co Ltd (CNEEC), is a 700-megawatt hydroelectric facility being built with Chinese assistance on the upper and middle reaches of the Kaduna River.

A ceremony is held to celebrate the commissioning of Unit 2 of Zungeru hydropower plant, which is contracted by CNEEC. [Photo/CMEC]

As the largest hydropower station in the country and an important BRI project in Africa, the project has other functions of flood control, irrigation, water supply, breeding and shipping, apart from power generation.

The project will be able to supply power to major cities including Abuja, capital of Nigeria, and will play an important role in easing the country's power shortages and strengthening the stability and continuous supply capacity of the local power grid. That in turn will meet the electricity demands of national economic development and improve people's livelihoods.