Liu Haijun, president of China's Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation (CPECC), speaks at the contract signing ceremony in Basra, Iraq, on Feb. 27, 2019. China's Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation (CPECC) and Iraq's Basra Gas Company (BGC) signed Wednesday a contract for constructing a natural gas liquids (NGL) plant in Iraq's southern province of Basra. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)