Feature: China's drilling company brings water to Egypt's desert for future giant sugar factory

Egyptian workers of China's ZPEC drilling company are seen during the pumping tests for a well in the Western Desert near Egypt's southern province of Minya, Nov. 20, 2018. Producing from 600 to 750 cubic meters of water per hour, the well is one of 30 wells drilled by ZPEC as an initial stage of locating and digging 300 wells to facilitate reclamation of some 120,000 feddans for growing millions of tons of sugar beets. (Xinhua/Li Binian)