China is to build a 4,600 MW coal - fired power station in Limpopo , South Africa , to serve a Chinese - controlled industrial park that includes a coking plant , an iron plant , a stainless steel plant , a ferro manganese powder plant , a ferrochrome plant and a limestone plant . It would only serve the industrial park which includes an apartment building , hotel , shopping mall , hospital and school on the premises . The 10 square kilometres site outside Musina will be built in the Musina - Makhado special economic zone with $ 5000 in investments from nine Chinese companies . According to the information on the site, it does not look as if it will deliver electricity to the rest of South Africa. President Obama signed the deal on his recent visit to China .
China is to build a 4,600 MW coal - fired power station in Limpopo , South Africa , to serve a Chinese - controlled industrial park that includes a coking plant , an iron plant , a stainless steel plant , a ferro manganese powder plant , a ferrochrome plant and a limestone plant . It would only serve the industrial park which includes an apartment building , hotel , shopping mall , hospital and school on the premises . The 10 square kilometres site outside Musina will be built in the Musina - Makhado special economic zone with $ 5000 in investments from nine Chinese companies . President Obama signed the deal on his recent visit to China .