The Chinese government has promised to build a 60,000 capacity stadium in Ivory Coast in readiness for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations which the country will host.
60,000 seats will allow the hosting of high-level football, athletics and rugby tournaments,” a spokesman said before a sports ministry meeting in the Ivory Coast capital.
The project will also see the construction of a sports city around the stadium in the suburb of Anyama, in the north of the capital.
The work, which will take around two years, will start in January 2016.
Abidjan currently has just one ground of international standard in the 35,000 capacity Houphouet-Boigny stadium built before independence in 1960.
The project will also include the construction of a sports city around the stadium in the suburb of Anyama.
Currently Abidjan has just one ground of international standard in the 35,000 capacity Houphouet-Boigny stadium built before independence in 1960.
China is a formidable presence in the African state where it is currently building the biggest hydro-electric project in the country.
It is also constructing a highway to link Abidjan and the Ghana border.
