 The People's Republic of China offered an interest-free, 50-year loan of $150 million in the early 1980s to finance construction of a port by the China Road & Bridge Corporation.It imported over 400 workers that had to emplace over 100,000 concrete blocks that each weighed over .The workers had to fight high seas and winds, sandstorms and strong currents along the unprotected coastline roughly southwest of the city.