The Chinese-built hydropower plant Patuca III in Honduras has improved the power supply and people's living conditions in its surrounding areas, a Honduran technician said in an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN).

Located on the river Patuca, around 200 kilometers southeast of the capital Tegucigalpa, the plant is the first large-scale hydropower project to be built in Honduras in three decades. Construction began in 2015 and was completed five years later.

According to Sinohydro Corporation, the builder of the project, the plant could provide up to four percent of the country's power supply once it is fully connected to the national electrical grid.

Alvaro Javier Ramirez, technical manager of the Special Unit of Renewable Energy Projects at the Honduras National Electric Energy Company, told CGTN that the area used to have very poor power supply before the Patuca III station came online.

"That project [came] to support the electrical supply in that region. That region was very [remote] and its electrical system was very poor. After that project was [completed], all the people living there have a best condition of life in that area," he said.

Ramirez has visited China five times to discuss different cooperation projects. With diplomatic ties now established, he hopes there will be further infrastructure cooperation between the two countries in the future.

"You have a lot of things to share with us. Maybe the most important thing that I want to express with you is the energy system - to build dams, to build a transmission line system, substation, an electrical system, because I am focusing on that. But many things that can come true with you, maybe railroads, a lot of things, ports, airports -- many things that you can share with us. You have in your country, the most important developing infrastructure that I have seen in a lot of countries in the world," Ramirez said.