Lanzhou ADB loan will be used to build bus rapid transit system

At 08:03 on September 26, 2009 Source: Gansu Daily

Gansu News Lanzhou, Lanzhou Electric, according to Gansuribao message ('s Song Zhenfeng): A reporter learned from the Gansu Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission recently approved the ADB loan, Lanzhou urban transportation project fund application report. This means that in Lanzhou City in the "bus priority, the people first" philosophy under the guidance of ADB loan will be used the development of urban rapid transit systems and intelligent traffic control system.

It is reported that the project estimates a total investment of 30.5828 million yuan, of which the use of ADB loans to 150 million U.S. dollars (approximately equivalent to RMB 10.2519 billion). Will be mainly in Anning District, Lanzhou City, the implementation of the design program is currently being further optimized. ADB's loan, Lanzhou Urban Transport Project main construction contents include:

New Town Planning Road, Anning District, 12, with a total length of 21.5 kilometers; three new bridges, bridge reconstruction and extension 3; the laying of water distribution network 41.4 kilometers, 61.6 kilometers rain water pipe network, sewage water distribution network 38.9 kilometers; supporting the building of an integrated trench with a total length 15.9 kilometers; and construction of bus rapid transit systems and intelligent traffic control system.

The State Council approved China's use of ADB loan

Hexun News Network - - May 26, 2009

By the end of April 2009, the State Council approved China's use of the 2009-2011 Asian Development Bank loan options for project planning, the recent issuance of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and relevant departments of implementation (project list attached).

Attachment: Asian Development Bank loans to the list of the 2009-2011 planning projects

Shaanxi Qinling ecological and biological resources protection Guizhou Province, integrated water resources development and soil and water conservation River basin of Shanxi Agricultural Comprehensive Development Rural Energy Ecological Construction (2) reinforce dangerous reservoirs The northwest provinces of Forestry Ecological Development Qinghai Haidong use of water resources in rural areas Forestry Development in Jiangxi Province Jiangsu Yancheng Wetland Protection The comprehensive development of agricultural infrastructure Yunnan Road Development (5) Forward to the Nen River in Heilongjiang Farm Road Anhui highway development Inner Mongolia Highway Development Soil gutang Hunan Xiangjiang Navigation and Hydropower Construction Project Chongqing-Guiyang Railway Capacity Expansion Nanning-Kunming Railway Capacity Expansion Chengdu-Chongqing Railway Passenger Line Guangdong Energy reduction (energy efficiency of the pilot plant) to promote (the second batch) Shandong Province, to promote energy-saving emission reduction Renewable Energy Energy-saving emission reduction Inner Mongolia Environmental Improvement 2 Green coal demonstration projects Small Towns Development Demonstration Project Lanzhou, Gansu Urban Transport Guangxi Border City Development Wuhan Urban Environmental Improvement Of urban and rural infrastructure construction in Chongqing Model Xinjiang Urban Transport Infrastructure Construction Xi'an Urban Road Network refine the project North Bay Urban Development Project in Guangxi Tianshui City, Gansu Province, urban infrastructure Tianjin Haihe River area of pollution control and ecological restoration Altay region in Xinjiang border town and port facilities, urban infrastructure and ecological environment improvement

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ADB Xiaogushan Hydropower Project has been assessed as "very successful projects"

Daily Gansu - May 21, 2009

Recently, ADB project mission of Wuwei City Xiaogushan plant operation, economic, community development, resettlement, environmental protection and so comprehensive survey, it was agreed Xiaogushan Hydropower Project will be assessed as "very successful project." This project became the history of ADB loans in China, the first "very successful project."

It is reported that Xiaogushan Hydropower Project in Gansu Province is the first use of ADB loan projects with a total investment 6.7 billion, of which the use of ADB loans for 35 million U.S. dollars, a designed capacity of 102,000 kilowatts, generating 380 million-year degrees. In July 2002 began to ADB technical assistance (PPTA) to work in October 2002 project starts construction in 2006, completed ahead of schedule grid. This project is also China's first successful registration in the United Nations Executive Board of the hydro carbon sink one of the fund, for a total to the World Bank to sell three million tons of emission reductions, the sale total 13.5 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to approximately RMB 110 million yuan. End of last year, total production value of 231 million, and paid taxes of nearly 5,000 million, loan utilization rate reached 98%.

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Tianjin, two projects have been 250 million U.S. dollars as the only eastern city of ADB loan

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May 22, from the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission was informed that the State Council has approved the city Huaneng green coal demonstration projects, and Haihe River estuary area of pollution control and ecological restoration projects into the national use of ADB loans for the 2009-2011 alternative project planning, two items received a total of 250 million U.S. dollars loan.

According to reports, after approval by the State Council, 2008-2010, ADB lending options for project planning, a total of 37 projects selected. Negotiations have been completed contracted projects deduction, plus 10 new additional projects, a total of 35 projects into the planning. 10 new additional projects with a total loan amount of 1.65 billion U.S. dollars, mainly arranged Midwest and the Northeast old industrial bases in the project, accounting for 85% of the total. The city selected as the only cities in the eastern region, two projects accounted for the remaining 15% of the share, reflecting the state development and opening of Binhai New Area of high priority. In both projects, Huaneng green coal demonstration projects to obtain loans 150 million U.S. dollars, mainly for the construction of a 250MW-class integrated gasification [16.93 -2.14%] gas - steam combined cycle (IGCC) generating units. Haihe River Estuary pollution control and ecological restoration projects to obtain loans for 100 million U.S. dollars, the main construction contents include the Tanggu District, the sea mouth of the south bank of the local sewage treatment, estuarine pollution, sediment control, wetland restoration and storm surge disaster prevention works.

Next, Municipal Development and Reform Commission will organize a project unit to carry out projects by country demanded a good preparatory work to implement a project of the conditions to enable foreign preferential loans to play a greater efficiency. (End)

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