CLP in US$240m Sichuan deal
( 2003-11-18 10:17) (China Daily HK Edition)
Hong Kong electricity supplier CLP Power will inject US$240 million to build
a water power station in southwestern China's Sichuan Province, a senior
provincial official told reporters yesterday.
CLP will own the project located in western Sichuan's Aba prefecture, said
Tang Limin, vice-director of Sichuan Investment Promotion Bureau, who is in Hong
Kong to promote investment in the province.
A total of 182 investment projects, mainly in the sectors of manufacturing,
service and infrastructure, have been signed with Hong Kong investors, involving
over US$2 billion.
The projects include a 260-million-yuan (US$31.3 million) deal with Hong
Kong-listed gas distributor Panva Gas Holdings, which plans to invest in four
joint-venture projects in Ping-chang, Yibin, Jianyang and Yuechi of Sichuan
Province.
"The four projects are expected to add a total 100,000 new subscribers to the
company when they are completed in the first quarter of 2004," said Chen Wei,
managing director of the mainland-based Panva which has Li Ka-shing's Hutchison
Whampoa as its second largest shareholder. He estimated the internal rate of
return for the new projects to match the existing 20 per cent.
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