Iraq has awarded a contract to a Chinese company to build 106 schools in the Southern Dhi Qar Governorate, its Governor was quoted on Monday as saying. 

Ahmed Al-Khafaji said the competent authorities are in the process of allocating land for those projects. 

“We will soon finish these procedures and hand the plots to the Chinese company so it can start the project,” he told Aliqtisad News agency without naming that firm. 

Khafaji did not mention project costs of whether it is part of a landmark oil-for-project agreement signed between Baghdad and Beijing in 2019 allowing Chinese companies to undertake projects in Iraq in exchange for crude oil supplies. 

Officials said last month there is a plan to build 1,000 schools in Iraq within a post-war rebuilding programme approved by the government three years ago.

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com) 

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