China Gezhouba Group Company Limited () is a Chinese construction and engineering company based in

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p ...

. As of 2014, the company is the 33rd largest contractor by revenue in the world. The major shareholder of the company (40.8%) is

state-owned State ownership, also called government ownership and public ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, or enterprise by the state or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. Public owne ...

China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC, ), which is in turn a subsidiary of the

China Energy Engineering Corporation China Energy Engineering Corporation or Energy China (CEEC, ), is a Chinese state-owned energy conglomerate, with headquarters in Chaoyang District, Beijing. History The conglomerate was established on September 29, 2011, with the approval of t ...

(Energy China). Primarily engaged in contract

construction Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations,"Construction" def. 1.a. 1.b. and 1.c. ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009 and ...

of projects, Gezhouba operates in the areas of power plants, dams, roads, bridges and

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

in China and abroad. In other categories of business, Gezhouba has invested and constructed highways; developed real estate; generated hydropower; and manufactured cement and civil explosives. The company has been very keen to expand overseas business with a stated goal of increasing international contracts to half of company revenue. Underlying the confident growth projections is a track record of picking up overseas contracts in hydroelectric engineering, the kind of work that accounts for most of Gezhouba's international portfolio. Overseas projects include a 4.97 billion yuan ($727.78 million) contract signed in 2010 with Kazakhstan Natural Gas Technology to establish a hydroelectric plan on the banks of the

Chilik River The Chilik (russian: Чилик, kk, Шілік ''Shilik'', or Шелек ''Shelek'') is a major flowing river in the Almaty Region in the Republic of Kazakhstan, one of the largest left tributaries of the Ili, and the main waterway of southeast ...

in Kazakhstan. In November 2014, the firm was also chosen to a construct a 40 km portion of the Hazara Motorway in

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

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