A Chinese group is building a condominium with 6,000 apartments on the outskirts of Maputo (Mozambique), a housing project for young people launched this Wednesday (April 2, 2025) by the Mozambican President, valued at US$2,000 million (€1,850 million).
Located next to the Costa do Sol district, the project has already begun to be built by the Chinese company Phoenix International Group, based in Hong Kong, resulting from a strategic partnership between the Government of Mozambique and the private sector, and should be completed in two and a half years.
"The project will create about 25,000 jobs in the maximum period of its implementation, contributing significantly to the reduction of poverty in the families of those involved, and, above all, in the surroundings, where about 1,500 have already benefited at this moment, in the phase of compensation for improvements that the company has already made, and cleaning of the land," said Daniel Chapo, when intervening in the launch of the housing project Fénix.
The private development, he explained, aims to "build a housing community of conventional standard, intended essentially for young people, and of international and modern standard", with the head of state highlighting the contribution to housing policy in the country.
"The main objective of this policy is to facilitate the provision of adequate housing and a healthy living environment for our youth, at a cost accessible to all social groups, especially young people, promoting quality housing, but at a low cost. That is why this project involves about 6,000 dwellings or apartments of various types to allow each one, according to their pocket, to live in a decent home", he pointed out.
The President underlined that the housing policy of the new Government, in office since January, "provides for the promotion and facilitation" of national and foreign investments for the construction of affordable housing complexes for all segments of the population, "including low-income strata".
"Our vision and objective is to make a replica of this type and level of housing, or even more adequate, to each place and the purchasing power of each place, throughout the country, over this five-year period [mandate started in January] that the Mozambican people entrusted us to lead," he stressed.
Chinese company has already built houses in Angola
Daniel Chapo pointed out that the company responsible for the project "has experience" in this type of development in Africa: "We have already heard from the centralities of our sister country Angola, as well as the Talatona condominiums and other projects that have been carried out in this friendly and brother country. It is this company that carried out this project. Therefore, we went out of our way to invite them to come and do projects of the same size, but with better quality and with full respect for engineering, and, above all, for the environment here in Maputo city and all over Mozambique".
In addition to the housing component, he explained that the project includes the construction of a shopping center, restaurants and towers, including a "panoramic structure of the entire city of Maputo".
"The lagoons that are in this area, none of them will be disturbed. They will be used for boat trips, a children's playground, a physical maintenance circuit (...) throughout the condominium, so that each one, in the morning, when they wake up, can walk, do their physical maintenance within this great neighborhood, a great city. It will have a health center, a school, a sports field, a soccer field, a community center, among other infrastructures," he emphasized.
Daniel Chapo recalled that "decent housing" is one of the basic rights provided for in the Constitution as guaranteed to all Mozambican citizens, and is also "one of the main concerns" of society.
"Without a doubt, this project will open up opportunities for housing loans, in accessible modalities, to different social groups, especially for our youth, taking into account that the project is aimed at young people, still in the phase of looking for their first job, decent marriage and housing," he insisted.
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