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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

一 |     週四上午，WNBA常規賽繼續展開爭奪，屆時火焰將主迎天貓。    

    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." 
。天貓為聯盟一姐，球隊實力強橫，加上對賽佔優，天貓此行攻陷火焰冇難度。
    
    　　火焰頭32場常規賽戰罷已經輸了19場，勝率四成出頭，這支新軍的整體發揮較為平庸。儘管她們最近2個主場先後擊敗節奏以及暴風，但主場兩連勝之前，球隊剛遭遇主場四連敗，換言之火焰近6個主場輸了4場，其最近主場戰鬥力相對一般。

二 | 卡拉莉特是球隊今季得分王，但該球員是役因傷上陣成疑，其他諸如碧捷卡列頓(今季均場得14.6分)以及美根迪萊奧等人需要分擔得分壓力。

三 | 此番面對強敵天貓，火焰唯有輸少當贏。陣容方面，菲亞根以及艾美奧干克禾因不同原因缺席。

四 |
    
    　　天貓目前以79.4%的勝率領跑排行榜，球隊今季整體表現絕佳。陣中多達4人均場得分15+，分別是奧莉維婭米爾斯(20分)、納菲莎高妮亞(19分)、麥拜莉(18.4分)以及N.侯活(15.4分)，球隊陣容極具競爭力。另外天貓近9場作客取勝8場，球隊最近作客表現令人飲得杯落。

五 | 考慮到今季頭2次面對火焰全部獲勝，期間均場淨勝分高達20.5分，且最近一次交鋒，麥拜莉斬獲全場最高的24分，其中三分8中4，外線手感出色。

六 | 有見及此，天貓此行必勝無疑。

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