According to its executive director, Henrique Bettencourt, the “Uxene Smart City” will have a fire station, a university (up to nine thousand students), a general hospital (up to 150 beds), a police station, a residential area , a business center, a commercial hub, a logistics park, a golf course, an ecological park and green spaces for leisure.
The official also explained that the city has the “smart” designation, because it will favor the use of renewable energy, and for this purpose, it will be connected to technology, a solar farm will be built and water will be used by the ecological park.
Henrique Bettencourt revealed that the first phase of the project, budgeted at 6000 million dollars, will start on May 29, 2023 with the laying of the first stone, and will last five years.
To materialize the project, the director stressed that the company has several partners, including nationals and foreigners.
“Of the national ones, the Instituto Superior Politécnico de Moçambique, Vodacom, Metro Bus (Sir Motors group) and the Water Supply Investment and Heritage Fund (FIPAG) stand out. Of the foreign partners, the highlight goes to Chinese companies, China Railway 4, Huawei and Gregori International”, he declared.
In turn, the Government of the district of Marracuene, represented by its administrator, Shafee Sidat, made it known that the Executive embraces the project because it will boost the economic and social development of the district.
“The district of Marracuene welcomes the project and many others that come to contribute to the development of the country and the district in particular”, stated Sidat, adding that Uxene could boost the rapid population growth that has occurred in the last three years in that zone.
