The group's Veolia Water unit won a 20-year concession worth 50 million euros (56 million dollars) to run a water sanitation plant being built in the west Beijing district of Luguqiao, its first deal in the Chinese capital, the company said in a statement.

The plant is one of six being built ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games with a loan from the World Bank.

Veolia's other Chinese contract was signed between its Onyx waste disposal subsidiary and Shanghai Huansheng Waste-To-Energy, the Chinese city's waste disposal service.

Under the 20-year concession, Onyx is to manage China's largest waste-to-energy facility, which can treat up to 1,000 tons of domestic waste per day, the company statement said.

Financial details on the second accord were not disclosed.

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