Two Chinese companies have finalised 15 contracts to build 1,000 schools across Iraq, MENAFN and other media report.

The deals were signed yesterday at a ceremony attended by Li Daze, vice president of the Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina), Koo Jun, regional director of Sinotech, and Karar Muhammad, director of the Iraqi government’s Supreme Committee for School Construction.

PowerChina will build 679 of the schools and Sinotech the remaining 321.

No value was given for the programme, but in 2019 China agreed to build a wide range of construction projects in exchange for 100,000 barrels of oil.