Feature: Chinese irrigation project helps agriculture, offers employment in Nepal

Lila Ram Acharya and his wife Laxmi Jaisi chat outside their new house at a village in Bardia, west Nepal, March 26, 2019. Forty-six-year-old Lila Ram Acharya began to work in the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project two years ago and his wife ran a hotel to serve meal to the project workers. The couple are well settled and economically benefited due to the China-constructed project. (Xinhua/Sunil Sharma)