BEIJING - Sinopec has started the construction of a 4.2-million-tonnes per year catalytic cracking unit at the Sino-Kuwait Guangdong refinery project, the company newspaper said on Friday

* Sinopec expects to complete the cracking project in September

* The first phase of the Sino-Kuwait refinery has 10 million tonnes in crude refining capacity and 800,000 tonnes of ethylene annual production capacity

(Reporting by Meng Meng and Aizhu Chen, Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips) ((meng.meng@thomsonreuters.com; +86-10-66271220 ; Reuters Messaging: meng.meng.thomsonreuters@reuters.net))