Malabo, Equatorial Guinea - Jan 18, 2019 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of local woman drawing water from well
2. Various of local woman washing clothes
3. Various of local woman pouring out dirty water
4. Various of sewage in sewer
5. Various of technicians working in sewage plant control room
6. Board with information of sewage treatment plant
7. Various of sewage treatment plant, Chinese technicians
8. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Wenbo, director, project management department, China Gezhouba Group Corporation, Equatorial Guinea:
"Currently, this sewage treatment plant collects 85 percent to 90 percent of the city's sewage, mostly domestic sewage, as the city has limited number of heavy and light industries in the urban region. The city mainly generates domestic sewage, which may amount to 20,000 cubic meters a day."

9. Various of local residents
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Sylla, Malabo resident (no full name given):
"Dirty water used to be seen everywhere here. This is where we live. The Chinese company came to help us with sewage treatment. Our drinking water is not contaminated anymore, it's drinkable now. We used to get sick a lot, infested with cholera and malaria. With the help of the Chinese company, we get sick less frequently. Our water quality is better and so is the quality of our life."

11. Various of sewage treatment plant, Chinese technicians

Chinese-aided sewage treatment project in Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, has helped improve public health conditions and reduce the occurrence of tropical diseases.

Work on the Malabo sewage treatment project started in 2008 and it was completed by the end of the year. According to the contract, the contractor will undertake to operate the project for three years before handing over to the local people.

The project was designed to separate rain water and sewage water and treat sewage water in a concentrated manner. By 2016, the sewage pipeline was extended to all the discharge outlets of most public buildings and urban homes.

Since then, the sewage discharge was normalized, reducing the number of mosquitoes. As a result, the malaria incidence was reduced to 8 percent. At present, the average malaria incidence was 40 percent in the whole country.

"Currently, this sewage treatment plant collects 85 percent to 90 percent of the city's sewage, mostly domestic sewage, as the city has limited number of heavy and light industries in the urban region. The city mainly generates domestic sewage, which may amount to 20,000 cubic meters a day," said Zhang Wenbo, head of the project management department of the China Gezhouba Group Corporation, Equatorial Guinea.

Equatorial Guinea's president and government officials have time and again praised the project for its outstanding contributions to improving the public health conditions and to lifting the face of the city.

Local residents are grateful to the Chinese company.

"Dirty water used to be seen everywhere here. This is where we live. The Chinese company came to help us with sewage treatment. Our drinking water is not contaminated anymore, it's drinkable now. We used to get sick a lot, infested with cholera and malaria. With the help of the Chinese company, we get sick less frequently. Our water quality is better and so is the quality of our life," said Malabo resident Sylla.

According to Malabo's population growth trend, the Chinese company plans to extend the sewage discharge pipeline to all districts in the three-operational period and will recruit and train local technicians to prepare for the final handover.