VIENTIANE (Xinhua): China is carrying out the Lancang-Mekong Sweet Spring Project to bring local villagers in northern Laos safe drinking water and to promote socio-economic development, the Chinese Consulate-General in Luang Prabang told Xinhua. Rural water supply safety has been identified as one of the priorities of water resources cooperation by the six Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) member countries. Chinese engineering companies in Laos have accelerated the Lancang-Mekong Sweet Spring project in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, Li Zhigong, the Chinese consul general in Luang Prabang, told Xinhua on Tuesday (June 8). Since the beginning of 2021, the project team carried out a pilot demonstration in Hatkeep village in Luang Prabang Province, some 250km north of Lao capital Vientiane, building water intake sites and water supply pipelines, and installing water purification equipments.