News in Bratislava, October 5 Unremitting efforts to create ¡°Chinese business cards¡± ¨C remember the Chinese builders on the construction sites in the Congo (Bo) and the Congo (Kim)

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Yangzi Shi Mi

In October, at the Port of Pointe Noire in western Congo (Brazzaville), pile drivers and ships undergoing dredging operations roared. The expansion project of the eastern terminal of Heijiao Port undertaken by China Road and Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd. is under construction.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the project manager Lin Kimmo came to the scene. He introduced that the rocky sand of this sea area brought trouble to the construction, and the project team set up an investigative team for this, after several rounds of defense and on-site verification, won foreign recognition.

The project executive manager Ruan Tig has been in the workplace for more than 33 days in a row, at one in eight in a thousand vertical degrees," he holds the meter recorded construction data, "this data is much better than the requirements of the French standard."

In order to solve the problem of pile driving deviation, Lu Zhihu led his team to stay next to the pile driver to record data during the day and organize technical review meetings at night to finally control the verticality within two thousandths. "I don't want the China team to lose to others overseas."

On the deck of the mud-growing ship, Captain Chen Huang is leading the team to seal the environmental protection flow facilities, "to ensure that there is no environmental leakage."From parameters deployment to running verification, the team checked, repeatedly confirmed, until the equipment stability reached the target. Young engineer Wang flew a box of moon cakes in the local apprentices' toolkit, laughing and said: "Happy mid-autumn, go on!"

Standing at the starting point of the Congo (B) Weso-Bokola road, the project engineer Jianping looked at the construction to the depths of the woods and said: "This is a hard 'kick' road."

This road passes through swamps and dense forests, and the geological conditions are extremely complex. In the early stage of construction, the roadbed was washed away by heavy rain almost every day. In order to build a solid roadbed, workers from the two countries measured and piled piles in waist-deep water. When they saw the road leading to the city gradually extending, the builders felt that all the efforts were worth it.

At the construction site of the Twin Towers Access Road in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo (Brazzaville), project worker Shi Xuefeng is guiding his local apprentice Juras in welding, demonstrating it over and over again until Juras independently completes standard solder joints. Such "master-apprentice partners" can be seen everywhere on construction sites.

"Chinese masters taught me skills without reservation," Yulas said. "We sweat together and solve problems together. We are not only colleagues, but also friends."

In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, across the river from Brazzaville, a ring road will ease the traffic congestion in this metropolis.

The main line of the Capital Ring Road project undertaken by China-Congo Infrastructure Construction Co., Ltd. is about 72 kilometers long and is divided into two sections: Southwest Ring Road and Southeast Ring Road. On June 22, 2024, President Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo laid the foundation stone for the project, and now the main highway line has taken shape.

Three bridges are planned to be built on the 24-kilometer Southwest Ring Road, of which Mfuti Bridge is the first to start construction. "This 120-meter-long bridge embodies the wisdom and sweat of our team." Tan Qiao, chief engineer of the project, said that the geological environment of the bridge foundation can be called as complex as a "geological museum". The Chinese technical team used impact drilling technology to meet all key indicators such as pile body integrity and concrete strength.

The Kinshasa ring is the first to introduce three-layer designs in the Congo (Kim) and is an important demonstration. Tan Bridge said that the construction of such bridges is common in China, but in the Congo (Kim) it is the first step. He and his colleagues, in addition to communicating with the Congo (Kim) side repeatedly and explaining Chinese standards, also demonstrated the process and hand-to-hand technology to local workers.

The northwest and northeast sections of the Kinshasa Ring Road have been included in follow-up plans. In the future, a complete urban "outer ring network" will be gradually built to drive urban development to extend to the periphery and relieve congestion pressure in the Main City.

In the depths of the forest of Congo (Bo), alongside the cities of Congo (Kim), Chinese builders are striving tirelessly to inject vitality for local development.Their struggle is a flood of China-Africa cooperation; their footprints have become a vivid "Chinese visit card".