Construction of a bottling plant started in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Tuesday.

The bottling plant will cost an estimated of 132 million yuan (19.3 million U.S. dollars) and covers 14 hectares in this capital city of Inner Mongolia, according to a Wednesday press release on the website of the COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages (Inner Mongolia) Co., Ltd. the Coca-Cola Company's bottling partner.

(Xinhua News Agency July 1, 2009)