On May 14, 2017, in Beijing in early summer, everything was on show. About 1,500 representatives from more than 130 countries and more than 70 international organizations came to China to participate in the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.
The then president of Kenya Kenyatta was full of expectations for this trip to China. When he was interviewed by the media before leaving, he specifically mentioned the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway , which was built by a Chinese company and will be opened to traffic, saying that "very high" Thank you China".
Kenyatta put this thank you from East African plateau into a U disk with golden hollow window grilles strung together by red Chinese knots. This is a gift he prepared for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In May 2017, the then Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta presented President Xi Jinping's Mombasa-Nairobi Railway Commemorative U-disk. (Photo / Populus euphratica) The front of the
U disk is engraved with the words "Mombasa-Nairobi Railway" ( Mombasa -Nairobi Railway), and there is a carefully recorded "easter egg" hidden in it. There is such a picture in the video stored in the U disk: Accompanied by cheerful African drums, the camera turns to the vast grasslands of East Africa, railway lines extend forward, modern stations rise from the ground, and builders from China and Africa are smiling side by side...
Xi Jinping meets Ken in the Great Hall of the People Yattashi emphasized that the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway should be used as a driving force to promote the construction of an industrial economic corridor that integrates roads and ports, and jointly create a new pattern of trinity cooperation between the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, Mombasa Port and Mombasa Special Economic Zone. The relationship positioning has been upgraded to a comprehensive strategic partnership.
On May 15, 2017, President Xi Jinping met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with Kenyatta, then President of Kenya, who was in China to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pang Xinglei
More than 10 days later, the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway was officially opened to traffic. On the day
opened to traffic, Kenyatta led a strong "experience group" to board the Mombasa-Nairobi railway train, including the first lady, a number of senior government officials and diplomatic envoys from many countries in Kenya, and 47 young students representing 47 counties in Kenya also became The first passengers. The "experience group" stopped and went all the way, and Kenyatta personally unveiled the seven railway stations along the way. Through the window, you can see the " meter-gauge railway " built more than a hundred years ago. The two railways are not far apart, but marked with very different chapters of history.
On May 31, 2017, the first train of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (Momba-Nairobi Railway) in Kenya, which was constructed by a Chinese company, departed, marking the official completion of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Cheng The new chapter of
began on December 4, 2015. On that day, at the site of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Xi Jinping solemnly declared: In order to promote the building of China-Africa comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, China is willing to focus on implementing the "Ten Cooperation Plans" with Africa in the next three years.
The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is an important achievement in the implementation of the "Ten Cooperation Plans". As the flagship project of the "Belt and Road", the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is the first railway built in Kenya since its independence, and it is also a modern railway built with Chinese standards, Chinese technology and Chinese equipment.
On December 4, 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and delivered a speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang photo
"I experienced driving a train for the first time in China." said Concilia, a "star driver" who drove the first train of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway. In early 2017, as one of the seven female drivers recruited by the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, she participated in a 50-day training at the Shaanxi Baoji Railway Technician College. "Bringing Chinese train technology to Kenya has greatly improved our infrastructure technology."
What impresses Chinese tourists even more is that the flight attendants and conductors of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway wear uniform Chinese version railway uniforms and dress neatly , With decent manners, many tourists thought they had returned to China.
On March 22, 2021, in , Nairobi, , the capital of Kenya, the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway instructed the driver Yang Ming and his Kenyan female apprentice Consilia to inspect the locomotive before the departure. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Yan photo
The railway is the main artery of the modern economy. In recent years, on different important diplomatic occasions, Xi Jinping has repeatedly mentioned Mombasa-Nairobi.The development and construction of railways: "willing to support Kenya in building economic belts and industrial parks along the railway line" "for railway construction projects that Kenya is concerned about, China is willing to work with Kenya to conduct feasibility studies", "strengthen the alignment of development strategies and give full play to the railway The economic and social benefits of key projects such as “…
is not only the extension of the railway line, but also the road of China-Africa cooperation is broadening.
In December 2019, the extension line of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway - Naima Railway Phase I freight was opened to traffic; in May 2020, the Naivasha Container Inland Port was completed, becoming an important freight hub on the Nairobi-Malaysia Railway, further expanding Kenya and even the traffic and commercial territory of East Africa; in July 2022, the new oil terminal in Mombasa Port, Kenya, which was built by a Chinese company, welcomed the first tanker full of diesel and gasoline; in August 2022, the Karimanyu Dam in Kenya The water supply project was put into operation with the help of China...
People enjoy the transportation and the goods flow smoothly. The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway has become a "golden passage" on the land of East Africa. Data show that as of the first half of this year, the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway has sent a total of 7.945 million passengers, 1.817 million TEUs of containers and 20.293 million tons of cargo.
uses China's development to help Africa's development, and ultimately achieve mutual benefit and common development. Xi Jinping said that this is "the greatest 'righteousness' of China-Africa relations".
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