As the Spring Festival Gala comes annually, the wonderful witty skits Happiness and Joy have attracted wide attention with the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway in Africa as the story background.

As the leading enterprise of construction machinery in China, XCMG has ranked No.1 in exporting to Africa for many years , and totally 198 sets of XCMG large equipment have been involved in the construction of Mombasa-Nairobi Railway.

The total length of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is 418km, with a design speed of 128 km/h and it is designed and constructed by Class A standards in China’s railway. XCMG owns the most complete product varieties and the most abundant construction equipment in the engineering machinery industry and it has participated in constructing the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway including road leveling, foundation reinforcement and filling, and rail laying etc.

XCMG’s Complete Equipment to Help the Construction of Mombasa-Nairobi Railway

As the first construction machinery company going global, XCMG has established its first overseas direct-sale Spare Parts Center in Kenya of Arica, covering an area of 1200 square meters and storing spare parts worth of USD 1 million. The establishment of XCMG Kenya Spare Parts Center will provide high-quality and timely service of spare parts to XCMG customers in the five countries of East Africa so as to further enhance the competitiveness and brand reputation of XCMG. In addition, XCMG also plans to take the regional Kenya Spare Parts Center as the model and perfect the network layout of spare parts in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and America; and provides fast and convenient service of spare parts and support for dealers and customers across the world.

Operation of XCMG Kenya Spare Parts Center

General Secretary Xi Jinping said in the Belt and Road Summit that “the relationship between two countries is based on the affection between the two countries’ civilians meanwhile the relationship between people is based on their inner emotional connections.”

As numerous projects such as Mombasa-Nairobi Railway are completed in Africa, XCMG’s workers use their Chinese wisdom and sweat to contribute to Chinese-African friendship as well as cooperation, connectivity and integration construction in East Africa.

XCMG’s Business Personnel Experiencing Mombasa-Nairobi Railway

The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway runs from the port city Mombasa in the east to the capital Nairobi in the west and runs through 8 counties in Kenya. It will serve as the first section of the East African Railway network, directly enter the African interior and become an important transportation hub linking coastal and inland areas. According to the data provided by the Presidential Palace in Kenya, the opening of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway will lift Kenya’s GDP growth rate from 5.8% to 8%, and Kenya will become one of the fastest growing countries in Africa.