Strong impetus for Sino-Ghanaian relations

On May 3, the first turbine of the Bui Hydroelectric Power Station in the Republic of Ghana, financed and built by China, started generating electricity, adding 133 megawatts to Ghana's electricity grid.

Funded with a concessional loan and buyer's credit by the China Export-Import Bank and constructed by the China Sinohydro Corporation, the Bui Hydroelectric Power Station, with a total capacity of 400 megawatts upon completion of all three turbines by the end of the year, will be the second-largest hydroelectric power station in Ghana. Up to now, Chinese and Ghanaian technicians and workers have been working shoulder-to-shoulder on the Bui project for more than five years, during which more than 6,000 Ghanaian workers have received training on hydroelectric power station construction.

In the inaugural address, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama expressed his heartfelt thanks to the government and people of China for their support of Ghana's economic and social development, saying that this project will bring new impetus to the friendly relations between the two countries.