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(Hong Kong, May 11, 2009) The Weizhou Town Waterworks Project in Wenchuan County of Sichuan Province funded by New World China Land Limited (“New World China Land” or “the Group” for short) (Stock Code: 917.HK) smoothly became one of the six projects of the people's livelihood that firstly sealed the top on last Thursday after six months of pressing construction. 

As one of top ten projects of the people’s livelihood funded by Guangzhou Municipal Government in Sichuan Wenchuan, the Wenchuan County Waterworks Project is located in Weizhou Town, the center of the county seat. Covering an area of about 12.5 mu and with the building area of 5,130 m2 and the water supply scale of 10,000 m3 per day, the Project will be completed and hold water in November 2009, and can meet the ordinary household water consumption needs of 30,000 people of Weizhou Town and surrounding villages. 

In the past one year since the strike of the Sichuan earthquake, New World China Land has, at the very beginning, paid continuous attentions to the situation of the disaster zone, including such assistance activities as to summon and organize national donations, to transport medical items to the disaster zone, and to organize owners to visit the disaster zone, etc., so as to provide the disaster zone with more aids. “After the short-term urgent quake relief, the Wenchuan quake-stricken area rather needs the aid and participation of the whole society in the long-term reconstruction”, said Mr. Zheng Zhigang, an Executive Director of New World China Land, “as an excellent corporate citizen, New World China Land has all through been looking for appropriate opportunities to participate in the post-quake reconstruction, and it is our responsibility and grand mission to contribute our part to Wenchuan people through the construction of the Waterworks this time.” 

To enable more employees and owners of New World China Land to participate in the disaster zone construction, New World China Land launched the donation activity named “Refuse Oblivion and Aid Sichuan with Water” in last December, and raised a total of RMB five million Yuan, in which RMB 281,000 Yuan was donated by the owners and the employees. All the donations have been used for the construction of the Wenchuan Weizhou Town New Waterworks Project through Guangzhou Charity Federation. 

The one-on-one top ten projects for the people’s livelihood funded by Guangzhou Municipality include: No. 1 Primary School of Wenchuan County, No. 2 Primary School of Wenchuan County, No. 1 Kindergarten of Wenchuan County, New Waterworks of Wenchuan County Seat, Injured Skeleton Hospital of Qiang Ethnic Minority, Phase I of Urban Makeshift Shelter Community Project, Rural Restoration and Reconstruction of Water Supply, Village Roads, and Public Service Utilities and Weizhou Market Project, etc.