Belt and Road pipelines in Myanmar come with social projects
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The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative has brought two major pipelines to Myanmar, but along with them have come a wide-range of social responsibility programs.
As CGTN’s Martin Lowe reports, the village of Phan Kaing in the hills of northern Myanmar is a traditional farming community‍ with little access to education. 
But now students have a fully-stocked library and attend a well-equipped school where people can learn valuable work-and-life skills. 
When China National Petroleum Corporation, in partnership with Myanmar Oil and Gas, constructed a 771-kilometer oil pipeline from Myanmar’s western coast right across the country and to southern China, they included more than 100 community projects. 
The projects, to help local communities, are worth a massive 25 million US dollars. 
At Phan Kaing, the school teaches children the national curriculum but in the long summer holidays there is vocational training for all. 
Community projects like these have been completed along the length of the pipelines' route. Together they make up one of the largest examples of corporate social responsibility, directly benefiting well over a million people.