Chinese Government provides grant for Solar Street Lighting Project

Project narrative

On July 7, 2016, the Chinese Government officially completed and handed over the the Solar Street Lighting Project to the local authorities in the Central African Republic. The solar energy demonstration project involved the provision and installation of 200 solar street lights to provide night illumination for some public facilities and roads in Bangui. It was implemented by ZTE Corporation and was completed and put into use in June 2017. According to Chinese Ambassador Ma Fulin, this was the first project to be restarted in the Central African Republic after the country's civil war. It is unclear when the project exactly began and how much it cost to implement.