Preliminary work to build a Mainland-backed biomass power plant in Mansoa, in Guinea-Bissau, will begin next month, the Macauhub website reports.

The website says a team of Chinese technicians has arrived at the site east of the country’s capital, Bissau.

The report quotes Filipe Monteiro, the Guinean representative of Shenyang Lan Sa Trading Co., Ltd., the Liaoning-based company behind the project.

He is quoted as saying the new plant would be fuelled by waste, such as rice hulls, corn and other cereals, and generate electricity for the Bissau.

Shenyang Lan Sa Trading also has plans to build schools, hospitals and social housing in Guinea-Bissau, the report says.