Laos Sustainability Report

40 Aiding infrastructure construction PowerChina actively integrates into local communities, aids infrastructure construction, and puts forth effort in improving local living conditions. While building resettlement villages, the company builds for local communities 460 kilometers of various types of roads and 23 bridges, as well as temples, village administrative offices and trading markets. In Nam Ting village, the company builds facilities like primary schools, meeting rooms and health centers, improving local education and conditions of health and villager autonomy. It also builds highways, drains, water channels and bridges, providing convenience for the life of local villagers, and significantly facilitating local economic development. A road within the resettlement village of Level-2 Hydropower Station The 8km hardened road of Level-2 Hydropower Station China-Laos Friendship Highway of Level-2 Hydropower Station A road within Kormanmai village of Level-6 Hydropower Station "The contribution made by PowerChina Basin Hydropower Co., Ltd. to the resettlement of Nam Ou River level-5 and level-6 Hydropower Stations is obvious to all. People in the mountainous areas in Northern Laos are poor and live in a hard situation. PowerChina Basin Hydropower Co., Ltd. has properly handled resettlement, and at the same time has made a great amount of investment in improving infrastructure, providing better guarantee for the relocated people to get rid of poverty and become better off, as well as guarantee for regional social and economic development. -Director of the Department of Home Affairs of the Phongsali Provincial Government Power Construction Corporation of China Clean water supply point of Level-2 Hydropower Station Garbage collection points are installed in all hydropower stations Hat Sa bridge of Level-6 Hydropower Station Sop Kinh village administrative office and health center of Level-2 Hydropower Station "The construction of hydropower stations has demonstrated the capabilities of PowerChina. The investment in and construction of hydropower stations by Chinese companies here has significantly driven economic and social development, and improved public service conditions like education and medical care in the villages." -Thongloun Sisoulith, Prime Minister of Laos 41 Laos Sustainability Report

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