China-funded projects facilitate life of Palestinians

STORY: China-funded projects facilitate life of Palestinians DATELINE: June 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:34 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Chinese School 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ODAI AL-HINDI, Director of the projects department in Ramallah 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AHMED GHABATRA, Local resident in Ramallah 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): MOHAMMED RABEA, Secretary of the school's director STORYLINE: Palestinian officials and locals have said that China-funded projects have positively facilitated the daily life of Palestinians in the densely populated West Bank city of Ramallah. In 2018, the Ramallah municipality established a massive China-funded ring road to ease traffic woes in the territory. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ODAI AL-HINDI, Director of the projects department in Ramallah "This project constituted a qualitative addition and expansion to the road network, and its cost amounted to about 7 million U.S. dollars, funded by the Chinese government. Its total length is about 8