Minister of Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Charles Milupi has commissioned a US$12 million fabricated concrete plant aimed at boosting affordable housing delivery in Zambia.
The facility, developed by China Jiangsu International Economic Cooperation Zambia Limited, is located in the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone and will be operated under the National Housing Authority.
Speaking during the commissioning, Milupi described the plant as a major milestone in addressing Zambia’s housing deficit, driven by rapid urbanisation and population growth.
“The facility is a tangible testament to the power of strategic partnerships. This plant demonstrates what can be achieved through collaboration,” he said.
The project is expected to create over 200 direct jobs, particularly benefiting young people, while also supporting skills development and knowledge transfer in modern construction technologies.
Milupi noted that the initiative will improve efficiency in housing delivery by reducing construction time and costs, while ensuring quality and affordability.
General Manager Chen Shu said the plant brings world-class technology and industrial capability to Zambia’s housing sector.
“We are deploying modern housing solutions that offer design flexibility while significantly reducing construction time and costs,” Shu said.
Meanwhile, Nalukui Milapo revealed that Zambia currently faces a housing deficit of over 1.5 million units, a figure projected to rise to 3.3 million by 2030 if not addressed.
She described the project as a cornerstone initiative that will help close the housing gap and improve living conditions for many Zambians.
4 ysear of promises
Suddenly just before elections everything is supposedly happening
we not stup1d
Why do China have to be involved in everything. Houses surely Zambian business should be able to manage. The Chinese have a property debt problem they looking for ways to recoup their losses at home.
Don’t be overly suspicious of China just while you ignore the ravage done by your former colonisers who have entrenched themselves in your land and in your mind.
The Chinese are trying to help you cut dependency on your colonisers. That’s why they are active members of things like BRICS. Literally every previously colonised african thinks heaven is in the colonisers’ homeland because that’s how they were brainwashed via the educational curriculum and via enslavement.
What Zambia needs to learn from China is how to depend on its own capacities. How have the Chinese done it? How have they in 90 years become the world’s number one economy
Where’s Lusaka South?
South of lusaka.
Ok, And where’s Lusaka?
LT your headline makes it sound like it’s a modern housing suburb. Yet when one reads its actually a factory for housing Implements.
Are you wanting to deliberately confuse your readers? So they can hastily conclude modern houses are being built in Lusaka South?