The Chinesegovernment has implemented a project titled ‘KyaukphyuFuture’, where a charity mobile clinic will be opened in Kyaukphyu township of Rakhine State.

Theinitiative is understood to address the anger of common Rakhine people against various Chinese projects in Myanmar.

Thecharity clinic project, which is designed by the CITIC group, will beimplemented by the local civil society organization named KSEDAA in Kyaukphyudistrict public hospital. It is funded by Yunnan province’s foreign aiddepartment.

Underthe initiative, free health check-up camps will be organised in  20surrounding villages by the next four months. It is expected to solve thehealth problems of people as there is no modern medical facility in thosevillages.

A Rakhineyouth wrote in social media about Kyaukphyu Future as ‘it is like harvestingthe entire field of wheat and giving the owner a slice of bread’.

AnotherRakhine resident commented that providing health care facilities is a goodidea, but the  Chinese agency needs to enhance job opportunities for localpeople.

"Thereare a number of big Chinese projects in Kyaukphyu district, because of whichlocals are losing their farmlands and facing the crisis of livelihood. Both theChinese and Burmese governments are earning revenues from those projects,” he added.

AChinese oil tanker port is located at Ma Day island from where the crude oil isbeing exported to Yunnan province through a pipeline. Moreover a gas pipelineis laid from the Shwe Natural Gas Project in  the Rakhine coast to pumpthe gas to the southeast China localities.

Buthundreds of Rakhine families lost their jobs due to the confiscation offarmland for these large scale projects. They are losing the livelihood offishing as oil tankers start entering into river waterways.

Presidentof a social organization in Maday island said that prior to these bigprojects, the authorities promised

jobs as well as freeelectricity. Moreover they assured the village roads would be reorganized.Building  phone towers for the benefit of people of the island andsupplying  drinking water were also promised. But in reality, onlythose Chinese project employees get all these benefits, but not the localRakhine people.

Madayisland supports 3800 people in 760 households across four Rakhine villages. Thelocals do not have access to health care, education and also enoughdrinking water.

China National Petroleum Company(CNPC) owns the pipelines project and it invested $2.5 billion in the giantproject. The project is yet to get the cooperation from all concernedparties. 

A new route  bypassingMalacca straits has been developed to send oil to the Yunnan capital city ofKunming. Recently the new pipelines were made operational by sending a largevolume of oil from the Maday  island deepwater port.