Feature: Chinese irrigation project helps agriculture, offers employment in Nepal

Laxmi Jaisi and her husband Lila Ram Acharya prepare food for workers at their hotel near the construction site of the tunnel for the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project in Surkhet, west Nepal, March 26, 2019. Forty-six-year-old Lila Ram Acharya began to work in the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project two years ago and his wife ran a hotel to serve meal to the project workers. The couple are well settled and economically benefited due to the China-constructed project. (Xinhua/Sunil Sharma)