Intermat to be held in May
01 February 2000
Intermat 2000, an exhibition for construction and civil engineering professionals, will be held at Paris-Nord Exhibition Centre, France, from May 16-21.
Intermat 2000 will have a new hall this year for equipment and technology aimed primarily at construction firms (small site equipment, concrete mixing, scaffolding, demolition, safety, etc).
The gross surface area of exhibition space at Intermat is now 290,000 sq m and encompasses halls 4,5,6 and 7, an outdoor exhibition area plus a demonstration area where exhibitors can show their equipment working.
The exhibition will attract about 1,300 exhibitors (including 60 per cent international) and 190,000 visitors. Intermat 2000 is organised by Exposium in conjunction with French associations MTPS and Seimat.
Three Gorges on schedule
Beijing: The damming of the Three Gorges Project in China is running on schedule3654 and will be completed by 2003, a senior official said.
Qi Lin, director of the Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation under the State Council, said that 190,000 Chinese civilians were resettled from damming areas by the end of November last year. Housing has been prepared for another 80,000.
The relocation project will involve 1.13 million people in 20 counties and prefectures by 2009 when the Three Gorges Project is expected to be completed. By 2009, 1,600 industrial companies and factories are expected to relocate their operations elsewhere.
The Three Gorges project located near Yichang in central China's Hubei Province is expected to help control floods and increase power generating capacity.
Vietnam to focus on infrastructure
Hanoi: The Vietnamese Government will focus on major infrastructure construction projects to help development in the flood-prone central region.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said construction of an underground tunnel through Hai Van Pass would start in June to facilitate the flow of traffic in the central provinces. The tunnel will link Da Nang with the province of ThuaThien-Hue.
Work on a second trans-Viet Highway (North-South Ho Chi Minh Highway) is scheduled to start in March.
Other infrastructure projects included investment in the Dung Quat Industrial Park, and works to prevent floods and boost production in central Vietnam.
New expressway opens in China
Beijing: Sichuan Province has built an expressway network in western China, believed to be the largest of its kind. The length of the network now opened to traffic is 800 km with Chengdu, the provincial capital, at the centre.
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