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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." 
。    2月22日、二宮和也（42）がYouTubeチャンネル「よにのちゃんねる」に登場。

二 | ラストツアーが迫る嵐について“極秘情報”を漏らしたとして話題になっている。【写真あり】23年10月、神妙な表情で駅を闊歩する二宮和也 アメリカ・グアムに旅行で訪れていたよにのちゃんねる。

三 | この日の動画では、現地で購入した寝巻姿でトークを繰り広げた。そこで二宮は、青地にサメが大きく描かれた派手なデザインの長袖Tシャツを着ていたが……。「3月から始まる嵐のラストツアーは2月からリハーサルが本格的に始まっているようですが、二宮さんはTシャツを気に入ったのか、動画内では『リハこれでやろっかな』と話していました。菊池風磨さん（30）も『（リハで着てくれたら）うれしいっすよ』と後押ししましたが、二宮さんは『いつも白Tとか着て来てたやつが最後のライブにこのでか柄サメでなんかすごい息まいてきてる（となると）怖くない？』と、これまでの嵐のリハーサルとのギャップを気にしました。それに対し菊池さんが『メイキング回ってるときにやってくださいって言ってるわけじゃないっすから』と言うと、二宮さんは『回ってんだ、メイキングは』と断言したのです」（スポーツ紙記者） 音楽関係者は言う。「嵐は5月31日のコンサートをもって活動終了すると表明しており、それ以降は個々の活動になるとされています。嵐として5人そろった姿が見られるのは5月31日が最後になるものと思われていました。しかし、メイキング映像を撮影していると今回二宮さんが発言したことによって、ラストツアーがDVD化されるのでは？　という見方が強まりました。

四 | というのもこれまで、嵐はツアー終了後にその模様がDVDとして発売されることが定番で、そこにメイキング映像が特典としてつくことも多かったのです」 SNS上でもファンの期待が高まっており……。《よにのちゃん曰く、嵐さんリハ中にメイキング用にカメラ回ってるって？？？それって……つまり……円盤化決定と同じことでは？？？？ははーーーん？？？？》 《Mr.シャークの朗報　嵐のリハにはメイキングが入っている　ありがてえ》 《よにのちゃんねるみてたら嵐メイキング回ってるって爆弾落とされ…そっかそっか?、、 マジでっかい感謝！！！！！ありがとうございます！！！！！！！！！！！！》 近づく活動終了の日に切なさが募るが、それ以降にも楽しみがあると二宮の優しい匂わせだったのかも――。

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