AN­GE­LO JE­DIDI­AH

an­ge­lo.je­didi­ah@guardian.co.tt

Pow­er Con­struc­tion Cor­po­ra­tion of Chi­na, a lead­ing in­fra­struc­ture firm, has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing clean en­er­gy projects in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider re­gion.

Known as Pow­erChi­na, the com­pa­ny val­ues its close re­la­tion­ship with the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment and aims to ini­ti­ate more projects that dri­ve sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

Ad­dress­ing Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­can jour­nal­ists on Tues­day at Pow­erChi­na’s head­quar­ters in Bei­jing, com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive Geng Xingqiang cit­ed the Mal­abar Waste­water Treat­ment Plant as an ex­em­plary project. He not­ed its sig­nif­i­cant im­pact, ben­e­fit­ing thou­sands of lo­cal house­holds and im­prov­ing the liveli­hoods of Trin­bag­o­ni­ans.

“These ini­tia­tives not on­ly im­prove lo­cal in­fra­struc­ture but al­so in­ject new vi­tal­i­ty in­to the re­gion's eco­nom­ic and so­cial de­vel­op­ment,” Geng said.

He added that Pow­erChi­na aims to play a piv­otal role in the Caribbean by sup­port­ing lo­cal en­er­gy, pow­er, and in­fra­struc­ture in­vest­ments while ad­vanc­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals.

Pow­erChi­na al­so played a cru­cial role in con­struct­ing the so­lar park at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. 

At its com­mis­sion­ing cer­e­mo­ny in Ju­ly, Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan stat­ed that the gov­ern­ment, along­side the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty, con­tin­ues to pur­sue projects aimed at re­duc­ing the coun­try’s car­bon foot­print and emis­sions.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia in Bei­jing, Pow­erChi­na Re­gion­al Man­ag­er He Yux­in re­in­forced the im­por­tance of fos­ter­ing clean en­er­gy de­vel­op­ment in the Caribbean, de­scrib­ing it as the way for­ward.

The jour­nal­ists in at­ten­dance rep­re­sent­ed Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries, par­tic­i­pat­ing in this year’s Chi­na In­ter­na­tion­al Press Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Cen­tre (CIPCC) me­dia ex­change pro­gramme.