On June 27, the post-disaster well-drilling project in Zimbabwe—undertaken by China Geo-engineering Corporation (CGC)—successfully passed its midterm inspection and was rated “excellent”. The acceptance meeting was attended by Huang Minghai, Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe, as well as relevant officials from the Eastern and Southern Africa Division of the Agency for International Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce.
Huang Minghai, the Counsellor, enthusiastically praised the CGC management and technical teams for embodying a tireless, trailblazing and selfless spirit in locating water sources in remote villages. He highly commended the project team’s strong political awareness, results-driven approach and camaraderie-driven work ethic, affirming that the project has, in this phase, achieved its goals of “teaching people how to fish” and deepening friendship. He emphasized that all participating units must maintain high-quality standards in subsequent work, supporting the beneficiary population’s poverty alleviation and self-reliance through ongoing measures such as optimizing internal management, bolstering project publicity and exploring sustainable maintenance mechanisms, in order to fully achieve the intended assistance objectives.
The project officially commenced on July 20, 2024, with the aim of installing 300 hand-pump wells across four disaster-affected provinces in Zimbabwe and addressing clean-water shortages for over 75,000 people. To date, all well-construction operations have been completed in both Mashonaland East Province and Manicaland Province. Going forward, the project team will remain committed to its founding mission—“no foreign-aid task is too small; always uphold political awareness”—and will rigorously manage and execute the remaining construction work to ensure timely, high-quality and fully compliant completion, delivering an enduring model project that stands the test of time.
