The administration ordered quarantine offices to conduct thorough sanitation of flights, ships and other vehicles, including waste.

But though the country has some of the worst sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa, its landfills are so picked over that there's not enough "good" waste to turn into electric power.

The project aims to help improve environmental conditions in Liuzhou by improving wastewater treatment, industrial pollution control, municipal sanitation and solid waste services and management.