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China-Africa Salon: A stadium in 2 years, a bond of 42 -- Chinese builders share their Kenya story_我的网站

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    An aerial drone photo taken on March 19, 2025 shows the construction site of the Chinese-built Talanta Sports City in Nairobi, Kenya. (Xinhua/Han Xu)In Nairobi, a 60,000-seat football stadium is entering the final stage of construction. Built in just two years, the Talanta Stadium will serve as the main venue of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
"The schedule was extremely tight -- just two years, while comparable projects elsewhere usually take more than three," Du Xiao, project manager of the stadium for China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), told Xinhua in a recent interview. "There is a very real sense of pride."
According to Du, the stadium has no running track, bringing spectators close to the pitch. Its seats take on the green, red and black of Kenya's national flag, while the facade features the traditional shield and spear of the Maasai people.
Upon completion, the stadium is set to be renamed the Raila Odinga International Stadium, in honor of Kenya's late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
The roof adopts a cable-supported grid system erected with a "cable-first, steel-after" method, which Du said is the first of its kind independently designed and built by China. Without temporary steel supports, 48 radial cables are tensioned to lift six ring cables before steel trusses are laid on top, saving at least three months of construction time, with displacement controlled to the millimeter. In 2025 alone, some 1,300 containers of materials and equipment were shipped from China to the site.
For CRBC, the stadium is only the latest chapter of a much longer story. The company built its first road in Kenya in 1984, and over 42 years, its footprint has extended from roads to bridges, ports, railways and buildings.
Du Shan, the executive general manager of CRBC Kenya office, recalled that before 2008, Nairobi was cut apart by three rivers and a cross-district trip could take more than three hours. After CRBC completed the ring roads, the journey now takes about 50 minutes. The company is also expanding the A8, a national trunk road, from two lanes to four and six, she said.
On the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, wildlife corridors were built with a clearance of more than six meters, "so that giraffes can pass with their heads held high," Du Shan said.
    Workers are engaged at the construction site of the Chinese-built Talanta Sports City in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 18, 2025. (Xinhua/Han Xu)Du Xiao arrived in Kenya in August 2011 and has worked on the ring roads, the Mombasa-Nairobi railway, the Nairobi-Malaba railway and the Nairobi Expressway before taking on the stadium project.
"Working overseas, we should not arrive thinking about changing the place. We should first adapt to and learn from the local community," he said. "What many projects truly open up is not just roads and railways, but trust between people."
The stadium sits near Kibera, Kenya's largest informal settlement. Du Xiao remembers a local young man named Sammy, who had no skills when he applied for a job but volunteered for the project's equipment training and became a pump truck operator. "I asked him why he worked so hard. He said, 'I never thought I would have the chance to touch these machines. Now I feel I can support my whole family.'"
According to Du Shan, the project recruited nearly 500 young workers from the neighborhood during construction, many of whom have qualified as assistant engineers, while about 280 local youths were mentored into technical backbones during the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi railway.
More than 350 CRBC employees have worked overseas for over a decade, and each year the company awards them a gold medal for long-term dedication, she said. "The medal is not only an honor, but also a kind of warmth. Because 42 years -- it has truly not been easy."
When his child was born, Du Xiao was at a critical stage of the Nairobi Expressway project and could not make it home. "People in overseas engineering live in two worlds -- the project site on one side, the family on the other. All you can do is try to do a little better on each side," he said.
"Maybe I will one day leave this country. But this stadium will remain," he said. "I came here to build projects. Then I found that this country has shaped who I am today." 
。    　　中新社北京8月25日电 (记者 刘文文)中国商务部新闻发言人、副部长兼国际贸易谈判副代表凌激25日在北京表示，高技术产业在中国外资增量当中，占比超过40%。　　凌激在当日国新办举行的新闻发布会上说，近几年，跨国公司对中国的投资有一些转变。　　首先，外商投资中国已经不仅仅看劳动力、土地这些传统的要素成本，他们更关注高效的产业生态、优越的基础设施，特别是现在的绿电、算力等新型生产要素供给，以及高效的供应链体系，充满活力的创新生态和高素质的人才供给。这些优势都是跨国公司在中国发展的重要驱动力，也是他们在全球形成竞争力的重要因素。

B | 　　其次，早期跨国公司主要是瞄准中国的资金和供给的“缺口”，从引进资金、成熟技术到商业模式和管理就可以在中国较快获得成功。他指出，这些年随着中国产业发展水平的提升，市场竞争日益激烈，消费应用场景的丰富和日趋多元化，越来越多跨国公司把中国作为提升其全球竞争力的“训练场”，有的还形象地叫作“健身房”。　　他还提到，过去很多外资企业在华投资都是搭建自己的研发和供应链体系。随着中国产业链供应链体系的日趋完备和高效，越来越多外资企业正在深度融入中国的产业生态，本土化水平不断提升，与中方合作伙伴的协同发展日益加强。

C | 　　凌激表示，伴随着跨国公司不断深耕中国市场，中国引资形势也稳中向好，当前中国吸引外资的存量比较稳定，高技术产业外资的进入不断增长。一些国家在华的商会近期发布的调查报告显示，多数外资企业在中国都实现了较好盈利，增资布局的意愿普遍提升。

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