Feature: Chinese company in Burundi turns vast marshland into farmland

A woman passes by a water pumping station in Kirundo Town, northeastern Burundi, Dec. 6, 2017. The rice field located in the southwestern suburbs of Kirundo Town, chief town of Kirundo Province, northeastern Burundi, was unfit for growing rice and was even hard for people to stand on the ground, until Chinese firm STECOL Corporation conducted an irrigation and water conservancy project here for over 538 hectares of land. (Xinhua/Lyu Tianran)