A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for the Shine Yarmag apartment block on Yarmag hilltop in Ulaanbaatar. Shine Yarmag is part of a Government plan to build 75,000 new housing units in the city. Shine Harmag will include 15,000 units, as well as shops, a school, and a hospital. Attending the ceremony were Prime Minister S. Bartbold and Zhou Yongkang, a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official. The construction of Shine Yarmag is being funded in part by loans from China.