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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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"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.
"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."
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据英国《金融时报》报道，美国驻土耳其大使兼叙利亚问题特使汤姆·巴拉克（Tom Barrack）表示，以色列本周空袭叙利亚一座空军基地，可能是一场出于国内政治考量的行动，意在今年秋季大选前“诱使土耳其卷入冲突”。这是迄今美国官方对以军此次行动最严厉的公开批评。
美国大使汤姆·巴拉克美联社本周二，以色列空袭了叙利亚西北部伊德利卜省的阿布·杜胡尔空军基地。袭击后，以色列总理内塔尼亚胡称，以方担忧土耳其将在该基地建立军事设施，从而威胁以色列国家安全。以色列一些分析人士进一步猜测，土方计划在那里部署防空雷达和攻击型无人机。
B | 但巴拉克22日在一场网络访谈中驳斥了这一说法。“这些说法毫无根据。那里没有任何土耳其军事资产，安卡拉也没有打算进驻这座基地。”他还提出一种更具争议的判断：鉴于内塔尼亚胡目前在民调中落后，以色列可能是在10月大选前采取一种“极具攻击性、但在选举中颇受欢迎”的策略，试图“诱饵式挑动土耳其”。
造袭的阿布·杜胡尔空军基地路透社巴拉克透露，空袭发生后，土耳其原本完全可以起飞战斗机拦截以军战机，而这将造成“一场没有必要的升级”。他进一步警告称：“那可能演变成第三次世界大战。”他还提出另一种可能性，即此次空袭源于内塔尼亚胡办公室、以色列国防军（IDF）与摩萨德之间的“沟通失误”。巴拉克的言论很快遭到以色列国防部长伊斯雷尔·卡茨反驳。值得注意的是，卡茨选择在犹太教安息日发布声明，这在以色列政坛较为罕见。卡茨称，以军是依据“明确情报”多次建议打击阿布·杜胡尔基地，因为土耳其计划在那里开展军事行动。
C | 他还表示：已向叙利亚政府发出“直接警告”，美国也在行动前获悉相关信息。这一说法遭巴拉克否认。卡茨还讽刺称：“埃尔多安被抓了个现行，只能被迫后退。”他同时批评巴拉克将戈兰高地称作“被占领的叙利亚土地”，强调特朗普在第一任期内已承认以色列对戈兰高地的主权。2024年以来，加沙战争导致土耳其与以色列关系急剧降温，土耳其暂停了两国双边贸易。此后，双方矛盾进一步扩大，叙利亚成为最主要的摩擦点。今年6月，以军扩大对叙利亚和黎巴嫩的军事行动时，埃尔多安曾公开表示：“土耳其的安全，始于阿勒颇，始于大马士革，也始于贝鲁特。
D | 我们绝不会对针对兄弟的任何攻击视而不见。”随着土耳其地区影响力不断扩大，以色列国内越来越多政界人士和战略分析人士开始将其视作新的安全挑战，甚至有人将土耳其称为“新的伊朗”。
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