Shenyang City, the capital of Liaoning Province, in northeast China, has completed construction of Lingkong Sewage Treatment Plant, its third such plant.

The new plant, which took three years to build, covers an area of 90,000 meters and is expected to begin operations by mid-December.

The plant has two sewage handling lines, each with a daily capacity of 100,000 tons.

One line was designed using Finnish technology, and the other, Chinese technology.

The city plans to build or upgrade eight additional sewage handling facilities so that by 2004, the combined daily treatment capacity will reach around one million tons a day, which will meet over 70 percent of the city's needs.

(Xinhua News Agency November 30, 2002)