China aids building of railway in Africa

China is willing to help Africa to realize its dream of building up a high-speed railway network, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during his visit to Kenya on Saturday.

"When Premier Li Keqiang visited the headquarters of the African Union, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chairwoman of the African Union Commission, said Africans have a dream that all the capitals of African countries can be connected by high-speed railway. As a good friend of Africa, China is willing to make its effort to help Africans realize this dream," Wang said.

A subsidiary of China Railway Construction Corp recently completed the $1.83 billion upgrade of 1,344 km of track across Angola, and China Road and Bridge Corp is building a Mombasa-Nairobi railway that eventually will be extended to five other countries at a total cost of $13.8 billion.