OREANDA-NEWS.  July 06, 2012. China has donated bio-gas appliances worth over USD160,000 to Ethiopia.

The appliances will be distributed to rural households to provide energy for lighting and cooking.

Chinese ambassador to Ethiopia, Xie Xiaoyan, signed the hand-over certificate with Ethiopian minister of water and energy, Alemayehu Tegenu, during a ceremony in Addis Ababa.

The Ethiopian minister was quoted as saying by China Daily that the government, together with its development partners, plans to construct 70,000 bio-gas plants by the end of 2015.