Chinese Government provides RMB 170 million grant for Laamu Atoll Link Road Project

In September 2014, during Xi Jinping's state visit to Maldives, the Chinese Government and the Government of the Maldives signed an RMB 170 million grant agreement for the Link Road Project in Laamu Atoll Project. This project is also known as the Laamu Link Road Project or Laamu Ring Reef Road Connection Project. The project was first agreed upon in June 2013. The road was designed by CCCC Second Harbour Engineering and built by Jiangsu Transportation Engineering Group. The 15.1 km road connects Fonadhoo, Kahdhoo, Maandhoo and Gan. The road's standard cross sections are 12.0 m and 16.5 m wide, and the project included roadbed, coral sand base, graded gravel base, asphalt concrete surface, protection, traffic safety facilities and ancillary work. The project would be conducive to the economic and social development of Laamu, and once completed, would become the longest high-grade highway in the Maldives. The project's groundbreaking ceremony was held on December 15, 2014. According to the Embassy in 2018, the road was opened to traffic in November 2016. President Abdulla Yameen officially inaugurated the road on September 8, 2018, according to PSM News. The Maldives Ministry of Housing and Urban Development reported in September 2018 that the project cost 447 million MVR, and the Maldives Ministry of Finance and Treasury in its Government Budget in Statistics documents reports disbursements by year for this grant that total 440,534,097 MVR.

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The Chinese title of the project is 拉穆环礁连接公路

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