After years of friendly relations, China-Africa ties have expanded beyond trade and investment to include all aspects of life. Join us as we showcase just some of the ways that Africa and China are closing the gap between the regions.
Chinese can build infrastructures on time, on budget and at a fraction of the cost compares to western countries, Elon Musk said; "Chinese can build infrastructures 100 times faster than American."
Baidu Mel, super agree bro! For example, California High-Speed Rail from LA to SF, 840km (520mi), approved in 2008, will operate in 2033 (about 25 years), original budget was $77.1B, in the future will be $98.1B! If China takes this project, the cost almost one-third of the current budget and can be done within 10 years! China's high speed rail with a maximum speed of 350 km/h has a typical infrastructure unit cost of about US$ 17-21m per km, with a high ratio of viaducts and tunnels, as compared with US$25-39 m per km in Europe and as high as US$ 56m per km currently estimated in California. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
Go back to Baidu! Elon Musk is a liar. Everybody has seen the recent news about him, so what he said about China is another lie hahaha. Keep your dirty Chinese propaganda for your fellows. Why do you come onto RU-vid? Your government banned it. Poor hypocrite.
@@jayson4602 you do know our roads are literally crumbling... We don't have trains in most cities and we are much richer than China... How is that possible?
@@ArturoVilchez92 I don't know where you're from 😂 Maybe the USA. In this case, nothing illogical. The US territory and the demographic distribution don't favour the use of trains in the sense it's not the most efficient and rentable way of transportation. Having trains is unrelated to being developed or rich. Australia and New Zealand have limited railways and many old roads, yet we speak about 2 developed countries where it seems that anybody around the world want to immigrate to. How new and fancy the roads are and how many trains you have have never been criteria for development and wealthiness 😂 That's the Chinese theory just like most Western countries believe in the democracy to make a country successful. "Start to build road bla bla bla" is a Chinese proverb. It applies for China only. There are enough developed and wealthy countries in the world who can confirm it's not true at all.
China Has brought Africa up to speed. Its a good partnership in the greater scheme of things. Africans and Chinese might criticize and stereotype each other, but its still the best partnership.
You know what I'm most amazed about..is there is no gender discrimination. Women are also given the opportunity to do the jobs that are generally viewed as "men's " job. These women are well educated, hard workers and intelligent! These people are the future of Africa and are role models to whatever race you are. It's about time Africa unite and be productive.
Mongolian Bornaparte and Africans shouldn’t believe in God either, considering we were forced to believe in them by colonialists. We had our own “religion” (animism) that was very peaceful and personal, thus never leading to belief conflicts. We should return to that.
Awesome news for countries/citizens in Africa, other parts of the globe. China, a huge dynamic, innovative, industrious dynamo, the likes never witness before in human history. China's rapid development has taken the west by suprise. Negative attitudes towards China need to be reconsidered & a more positive relationship between everyone. The west need to accept China is here to stay. I'd say the status quo has been changed for good. 👋 🇦🇺
summary of Madaraka SGR financial data: Initial project cost $ 3.3 billion U.S. Current costs ( due to expansion ) $ 4.7 billion U.S. ( a 47% increase over the initial cost ) Bank China EXIM revenue dur first 3 years 2,110,704,483 KSh $230.7 million operational costs dur same period 3,938,700,823 $430.5 million expenditure outpaced revenue by 87% lifetime per capita cost to Kenyan taxpayers 6,891,068,301 KSh ( or $63,047,285.46 U.S. )
Nowadays everywhere in Africa we are being told by those who enslaved and colonized African people that the Chinese are our new colonizers. Although, like all other governments, the Chinese government has its own domestic problems and faces challenges in the areas of human rights and civil liberties, I like this Chinese focus on infrastructure development assistance in Africa such as the construction of an extensive railway system in East Africa. This will enable our countries to expand trade within their borders and between our countries. Most European countries who colonized many of our mineral-rich countries failed to do this over centuries of enslavement and colonization. In this regard, a good example is the extremely mineral-rich country like Congo, Kinshasa with little internal infrastructure development after several decades of colonization, post-colonial Mobutu Sese Seko's dictatorial rule, and presence of the United Nations "peace-keeping" forces that cost billions of dollars to maintain. The United States leaders (the CIA to be specific) conspired with the Belgians to get Patrice Lumumba killed with the help of Mobutu and Katanga secessionist rebels and to impose Mobutu’s dictatorship on the Congolese people. Now they often try to accuse us in Africa for being responsible for dictators like Mobutu. In a nutshell, this shows that certain American and European leaders hypocritically pretend to be against dictators in Africa especially if they work against them. But then, as in the Mobutu case, they not only support dictatorships, they also help to bring them to power and impose them on the African people if such leaders work for and promote Western interests while they enrich themselves at the expense of their citizens. What should be emphasized is the fact that with regard to relations with both the Chinese and Western governments, our African leaders should borrow strategically from any quarter and avoid doing it excessively to avoid making it hard for our countries to repay debts in the future.
Sounds like you listen to a lot of Western media and former colonial masters teaching, after hundred of years ripoff African continent are they help you to industrialise? No. Debt trap is another bias topic Western nations try to stop Africa move right direction, they don't believe that African people and it's government can manage their OWN destiny!!! China believed that with capital investment to prove roads, railway s, the Africa nations can slowly industrlized just like Chins 30years ago, Chinese experiences will help nations in beautiful Africa.
The people who told you the Chinese are the new colonizers are the same people who tells you China has human rights issues. Don't listen to them! In all my years in China I have never seen a Chinese police shoot innocent civilians, by contrast over 1300 US citizens die in the hands of law enforcement each year! Don't believe me? Go visit the USA!
Totally amazing to see these big life changing projects taking shape in Africa. Africa needs these projects in ernest. Look at the Arab Gulf countries development in the space of a few years. China, Japan and South Korea are good countries that can supply Africa's need for capital goods.
IMHO, the Chinese model may not work for every country because there're two ingredients that are a must for its success, based on my own observation from publicly available sources: 1) political stability -- Whatever you build today will get blown up tomorrow due to internal or externally induced chaos, e.g. Iraq, Libya, ...; and 2) willingness of citizens to sacrifice certain degree of personal freedom for the greater good of fellow citizens -- you can't buy guns from Whatmart or gun shows at will and then go shoot up the town when you had bad day or a losing streak in casinos. Oh, one more: work ethic.
Apply death penalty for all corrupt leaders in Africa.we are tired of some people in power looting our countries. Punish the leaders harshly so that foreigners fix their heads when dealing with Africa.
That's funny. just before i get to this channel, the previous channel displays lots of negative and dissatisfied comment from the Kenya citizens with the Chinese people in Africa? What it is" Does the Kenyan think the Chinese in Africa to take over there country? I want to know what the Kenyan view about the Chinese? Anyone care to explain the ground situations?
Nobody is talking about the debt burden and the pressure these infrastructure projects bring on African economies. The deals also seem to be skewed towards China. The feasibility study was done by the Chinese, the costing was done by the Chinese, It was financed by a Chinese loan, the rail is being built by a Chinese company with a pool of workers and raw materials from China. The locomotives were bought from China, As if that is not enough already, the Chinese are going to run the rail for 10 years at a cost of Kes 12 billion annually from Kenyan taxpayers. This project just creates business for Chinese firms.
This is definitely my business Mr. Ray. It's my tax that will be used to pay that debt. When companies import Chinese workers to do manual jobs, it is my countrymen who remain unemployed, contributing to crime and social unrest. Now tell me, Mr. Ray, Are you from Kenya? How is a railway in Kenya any business of yours?
@@behonestkid1456o I don't want free things. I want the Kenyan this deal to be fairer towards Kenya. They can use Kenyan workers or raw materials to start with. I don't even think it was a good idea to build a railway and leave Kenyans in debts.
@@parmenas6265 There is a slogan in China, 'if you want to be rich, build the road first'. You may not have the debt if you don't build the railway, but you can never get rich.
You do realise this channel is a Chinese state-owned channel lol. It's not an American channel! You will never ever hear the African story because China thinks like the West! The West and China think they have to speak for Africans because they know better than Africans what is good for Africans! China and the West are the 2 largest cancers in this world. Africa is just a playground for them. No wonder why we are still poor no matter the African country you're from. And we will remain poor for sure!
In mombasaover 50000 people have lost jobs while the port is in the coast all of these jobs have moved to Naivasha so usinaimbie it has left a bad taste in our mouths
China cannot plug the gap of a profound lack of local innovation in Africa, using Chinese technology is a short term solution, Africa must use indigenous technology to develop their infrastructures. Whilst there is more sincerity of purpose from the Chinese in comparison to Western countries, Africa must stop being mentally lazy and start to innovate by mainly learning from the Chinese. In the 1930s China was very poor and politically unstable until chairman Mao came out with the cultural revolution, no foreigners invested in the economy it was all indigenous Chinese companies transformed China and that is why China is in the place that it is today. Why can't Africa do it without looking for outside help that comes with a high cost. To develop our vast continent the cost of development must be halved and that can only be done when local companies deal with local contracts therefore creating local employment. Innovate or perish, lack of innovation is the greatest threat to the existence of the black race. Innovation is the only solution to racism as we cannot consume ourselves into equality, me must develop, invent, build and export just like the Chinese.
Facts: the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR was completed at a cost of $ 3.3 billion U.S. 90% of that is financed by China EXIM Bank. But let me put that in terms that are more personal. The lifetime cost to be borne by each Kenyan citizen will be 6,891,068,301 KSh ( or $ 63,047,285.50 U.S. ). How many Kenyans are willing and able to personally bear such debt? For the last date available 2018 Kenya's debt-to-gdp ratio was 60.15%. With the loan for the SGR, that figure will certainly balloon to an unsustainable rate.
Why don't you ask the US to build this railway? It will be cheaper and much faster. Or maybe free? As one African said, the US gives aid and Africa gets AIDS - Always In Debt Syndrome.
this generation's achievement,benefit next generation,high speed train bring confort and convenience to people,increase industrial efficiency and productivity,cut transportation costs,promote business,improve economy,promote connectivity of people,goods,ideas and culture,promote national unification and harmonious society,lots of benefits,don't be short sighted and don't believe the hateful words of Western media,they fear,envy our achievements,some of them even make false claims to intentionally undermine Sino-Africa cooperation,the best way to protect environment is do nothing,every thing comes at the expense of other thing to some extent,we must carefully assess project's side effects and risks and balance it and improve it,if you choose to cooperate with other country instead of China,corruption won't disappear,Mainly it is not the faults of projects and Chinese,mainly it is the problem of political system,dear african friends.
I have this warning for my African brothers and sisters: conclusions about large budget contracting and public works projects should not be rooted in short_term gratification. Actual revenue generation and financial results five years out, ten years out should be the BEGINNING of your assessment.
Why not just tell the African to listen to hypocrite Hilary or Pompeo on how to develop Africa? They can promise better infrastructure that they have never seen.
There's an old adage that goes, if it's too good to be true it very likely is. It concerns me when virtually no Africans are subjecting large budget contracting and public works projects to the scrutiny they deserve. Citizens are enamored by these shiny new toys but they know virtually nothing of the financial details. Even more alarming is that many seem uninterested.
The negative and dissatisfying comments was from KTN news Kenya. They were complaining about 5,000 Chinese in Kenya working in Kenya. I want the Kenya point of view now look back in 2021.
Michael Jackson made a USA for Africa video to make money for Africa and he performed the song in concert. It's called "We are the world". The United Kingdom also had Band Aid, a group of various artists singing "Do they know it's Christmas" to raise money for them The United States of America and the United Kingdom have both given billions in aid to Africa. I'm glad China is helping because Africa needs all the help they can get
Lol look this white guy, this what did you come up. You couldn't find anything to criticize China in Africa. Only few villages in war zone in sub Saharan countries need water lol not all African need water hahahahahahah go keep watching Fox News
Why are all these CNBCAfrica videos produced by Chinese state media? In fact, it's difficult to find anything related to Chinese/African international relations on RU-vid that isn't produced by Chinese state media.
Because in most African countries if we, normal people, try to say something negative about China in Africa, it will sound as a criticism of our own politicians. And nobody wants to get in trouble or end in jail for whatever fake reasons. Finally, there are Chinese users on pretty much all African internet platforms! Anytime they see something negative about China, they are there to flood with Chinese propaganda! You have no idea how it's common lol.
smears: CNBCAfrica is China media, CNBC Africa is an African pay television network launched on 1 June 2007. Founded by Rakesh Wahi and Zafar Siddiqi, the network is produced under license from CNBC International and is owned by Africa Business News. It is headquartered in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Very sad that Africa can't build anything for itself....we import everything and now we even import labour while 90% of Africans are unemployed... thousands of our engineering students are busy doing small scale farming and hawking ..... Government willing to pay 1billion per km to China company and pay Africa company 1 million per km for the same road....it's time Africa appreciates and supports its own products and companies
I still don't understand it too. For me if it's not build by African for Themselves. Then it is not real development for me. African can do the same work for less, also the diaspora want to help but those puppet leaders don't give them the chance. It's a real shame.
i can tell, one day aferican people like hassan mohamed will hate chinese after chinese build everything for aferica, and will kick chinese out aferica. they will forget who build it, and what they had before chinese came help them build everything, it happen many times in chinese history.
There is a saying in Chinese that " Even dragon needs help to fly into the sky" Dragons are perceived as a powerful beast in Chinese view. But even that powerful dragon need the help of some bamboo pole to fly into the sky in the first time. Our elders taught us that one one knew things when they were born, everyone learned their ways gradually later in life. Even Confucius said that he was knowledgeable, not because he was smart but because he was an eager learner.
@@directxxxx71westerners always encourage African to dump theirs friends from Asia. They are good at dividing people to continue their exploitation. Everyone including African need real friends, look at what they bring, not their big mouth telling lies to get African poor for another three hundred years.
The $3.3 billion U.S. Mombasa-Nairobi SGR has been a boon for Kenya. Or has it? Here are some facts that may be revelation for the more inquisitive among you: KPA has a contractual obligation to ship via the SGR. More time is spent clearing goods at the congested Nairobi train depot. Transportation costs to importers shot up 50% when they used the rail due to extra fees. And guess who those extra cost are going to be passed on to? Answer: the Kenyan consumer.
Luckily most of Kenyans don’t think like you. If they think like you, they would have all go back to Stone Age. The cheapest form of transport is your legs and you carry your own goods.
if u want to close the gap between Afirca it should be connected to China but the whole world and it should be the Wolrd Bank not China - It should be the World Bank that is the biggest investor in Africa
That's so pathetic, africa has professionals in all fields and resources,why still relaying on China.Pan Africanism should prevail in all fields and sector,we have do away with the dependency syndrome.
Yes you do, but not enough for the whole African. That is why Chinese are here to build school for you, so that the professional can teach and create more professionals for African.
S******* after WW2 most of the highways in Canada build by American companies and 80 % of companies in Canada own by America. Now things change Canada own most of their companies
Afrinese or have China found a materplan to infratrate and undermine a desperate continent. Africa can not let other countries build ports/forts that allow outside countries to have a permanent residence.
@@ed_201 So are you living in Kenyan? Do you know which part of this video is lying? You care for Kenyan people and you know their needs? Grape so sour.
I was waiting to see the Chinese plan to procure local Kenyan products and set up companies that facilitate transfer of Kenyan goods to China.....didn't happen....Africa wake up.
@Nic, sorry to burst your bubble, I am a Kenyan living in Kenya. You must be the one kissing Chinese ass. Let me pull your head out of Chinese ass and open your mind to the big picture. The Chinese projects in Kenya are part of "Chinese silk road plan."(research for yourself). It is serving the interests of Chinese people first by opening up East Africa to consume more and more of Chinese products. Do you even know the trade imbalance between Kenya and China? In 2018 alone, we spent 380 Billion shillings buying imports from China, mean while, they only bought Ksh 0.1 billion shillings worth of goods from Kenya. Thats less that half of 1%, in the mean time they are siphoning more than 20% of our National GDP to the Chinese economy every year. Business is good only if it is fair. Open your eyes and see the big picture. Stay woke.
@@MrBlinder514 True, I agree with you 100%. No deal Africa does with the rest of the world is of mutual benefit. African countries need to do more trade and investments within themselves, keep capital flow within Africa. Develop a financial system that works for us. The rest of the world needs Africa, we will make a paradigm shift in the global economy. We are waking up.
@jason wang You are right, 100%. We are developing ourselves to get to where China already is. We are learning from our experiences and adjusting appropriately.
cap line Whatever the private Chinese companies misbehaved in your country or the entire African Continent, you must report to your government immediately and China Government will take care of it. Africa will progress with China. She only wants to do business and helps develop Africa at the same time.
China is using debt trap policy in Africa, the railway built in Kenya doesn't make any economic sense since it was built next to an existing railway that was not being used to full capacity. The feasibility was done and railway built by the Chinese. Kenyans have to now pay more taxes (to pay for the loans) as this projects cannot repay themselves
Next to an existing railway.. Really. That thing that was left behind years ago that could hardly go more than 60km/h is what you call an existing railway. The debt is a lot I agree, but you cannot compare what the Chinese built to what was there before.
Are you talking about the 100 years old lunatic express? There is something called technological obsolence. That line, the engines and the carriages are past that stage.
I agree with you. Chinese citizens actually don't like working with Africa like this! Because the vast majority of loans are uncollectable! Many of the loans end up not having to be returned. The Chinese people will ask: Why is this money not used in China? The Chinese people also want the money to stay in China to develop the economy! The Chinese people will ask: Why not let Africa continue without railroads and continue to maintain the transportation and economic model left behind by the colonialists? Why do the Chinese spend so much manpower and money in Africa so that Africa can close the gap with the world economy, and in the end the Africans call it a debt trap! Full of mistrust! Please ask for so many years. Before the Chinese came! What is your economy and the environment like? Without giving, there can be no return! You can't use the logic of beggars to explain.
