China-sponsored social house commissioned in Mogilev
MOGILEV, 28 June (BelTA) – A social house built with the technical assistance from China was officially inaugurated in Mogilev on 27 June, BelTA informs.
The ten-storied compound for 120 apartments was built in the new neighborhood Kazimirovka (Grunvaldskaya Street). It is one of three houses that were built in Mogilev Oblast as part of the first stage of the Social Housing project with the technical and economic assistance of the People’s Republic of China. The two other houses were constructed in Bobruisk and Osipovichi.
The new building will be home to orphaned children, families with disabled children, large families, unemployed lonely disabled people. One- and two-room flats have wallpapers, laminated flooring, sanitaryware and doors. There is a well-equipped children’s playground in the yard.
The Mogilev house building factory took eight months to build the house. The general contractor was the Tianjin electric power construction company of the China Energy Construction Group.
According to counselor on trade and economic matters at the Chinese embassy in Belarus Yang Xumin, the compound is not just a social housing. It is a sign of friendship between Chinese and Belarusian peoples, the demonstration of the rapidly developing relations between the two countries.
The second stage of the Social Housing project will be launched in Mogilev Oblast this autumn. Chinese grants will be used to build seven more social houses in Mogilev, Bobruisk, Klimovichi, Krichev, Bykhov.
A total of 16 houses have already been built or are being built in Belarus with the help of China. The second stage will envisage the construction of 22 more houses.
