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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

A |     8月26日讯 瑞士国脚恩博洛今夏从法甲雷恩转投美职联亚特兰大联，在新援亮相仪式上接受媒体采访时，他回顾到了世界杯1/4决赛对阿根廷吃到的红牌。    

    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." 
。恩博洛说道：“作为球员，我们当然感到非常愤怒，因为我们心里清楚，只要能保持11人作战，我们就有赢球的机会。所以红牌深深刺痛了我，也刺痛了我的球队，团队永远是最重要的。

B | 裁判做出了他的判罚，没办法，这就是竞技体育的一部分。

C | ”在世界杯决赛结束12天后，国际足球协会理事会（IFAB）宣布，“判罚对象纠错”不应适用于假摔情况。

D | 当被问及这一赛后出台的决定是否改变了他对被罚下的看法时，恩博洛给出了斩钉截铁的回答。

E | “没有，我们输了，我是个充满胜负欲的竞争者，作为一名球员，深知走到那一步、身处那种境地以及凝聚起一支球队有多么难，所以很难去接受这样的结果。难以接受是因为你知道站上那个舞台有多不容易，下一次机会可能要等到4年后，谁也不知道到了那时候又会怎么样，这才是最让人难以释怀的地方，而不仅仅是那张红牌本身。”恩博洛对被罚下场的反应成为了今年世界杯令人难忘的画面之一，当时他悲痛欲绝，而这一判罚也明显改变了比赛的走向。如今，恩博洛来到美职联继续自己的俱乐部足球生涯：“4个月前，我根本没想到自己会来到这里，但对我来说，这是一个决定性的选择。亚特兰大联已经了解了我作为球员和普通人的一面，我认为美职联正在不断成长，看看美国国家队的发展就知道了，这是一个过程。去年我们和他们交过手，所以这是一种进步。发展需要时间，尽管我知道在足球世界里最缺的就是时间。

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