Guangzhou's Nansha district has planned 202 major projects this year with an overall investment of more than 620 billion yuan ($96 billion), and related construction work is already making good progress, local media outlets reported on April 21.

The design sketch of the new sewage treatment plant in Qingsheng area. [Photo by Liu Wei/gznsnews.com.cn]

Officials from the administration bureau for the development and construction of Pearl Bay said that the Pearl Bay starting area has attracted 35 headquarters projects so far, forming financial innovation cluster platforms such as the permanent site of the International Finance Forum. Around 22 projects have settled on Lingshan Island.

Leatop Financial Center, to be built into a headquarters and commercial complex in the "garden style" is expected to be put into operation in December 2022. The main structures of all tower buildings in the first phase of this center are scheduled to be finished in September 2021.

The headquarters of the Times Group in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is located in the central business district of Lingshan Island. The project will finish construction in 2026.

A new sewage treatment plant in Qingsheng area, which is being built at a cost of more than 200 million yuan, has now taken initial shape. Construction work is expected to finish before June.

After construction, the plant will be able to effectively collect sewage in the Qingsheng area and thus improve the local environment.