TIANJIN, China: A Malaysian integrated seawater desalination and salt-making project in China's Tianjin City will start operation soon.
This follows the signing of an operation agreement today between Xianda (Malaysia) and the Administrative Commission of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area.
The signing ceremony was witnessed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Tianjin Municipality Party Secretary Li Hongzhong, and Wang Dong Fong, acting mayor of Tianjin.
Xianda had reportedly invested RMB15bil (RM8bil) into the plant, which would produce one million tonnes of clarified water and 600,000 tonnes of desalinated water per day.
The project serves as an important infrastructure and key utility project in the Nangang Industrial Zone, and is the main supplier of industrial water and demineralised water to the other manufacturing plants within the zone.