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China trains Sierra Leoneans on expressway construction and operation management

By Abu Bakarr Kargbo (People's Daily Online)    09:57, June 13, 2018

China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG) is one of the state-owned companies that successfully implementing the Chinese 'Go Global' policy and moving on with the 'One Belt One Road' philosophy, which has benefited millions of people around the world. In Sierra Leone, CRSG prides itself to be a major contributor to the West African country's road infrastructure development and has a result, major roads have over the years been constructed with hundreds of local people employed and trained to carry out major operations. 

Head of CRSG, addressing participants in Zhengzhou City

In line with this development, the Management of West African Operations and Management Company together with China Railway Seventh Group as part of their corporate social responsibility organized training program for twenty-eight Sierra Leoneans under the ages of 45 years in Henan University, Zhengzhou City on expressway construction and operation management for Sierra Leone.

Entrusted by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, and Henan University of Technology (HAUT), CRSG is supporting the twenty-eight days comprehensive training with developed lectures, combine theories and practice, field visits and communication to help participants study on expressway construction and operation.

The training program is based on the theme "improving the management of expressway operation so as to promote national transportation." Participants were lucky to meet the Head of CRSG in Zhengzhou who recently paid them a visit not only to interact with them but to also see how they are moving along with their studies. He extended greetings from the CRSG Headquarters and urged the Sierra Leoneans to treat the course with all seriousness so that they will, in turn, contribute to their country’s infrastructure development.

The major part of the training took place in Zhengzhou City and field visits will be held in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province in east China for expressway construction and operation where there are advanced expressway networks.

Sierra Leonean students with officials of CRSG and Henan University of Technology

The training combines theory and practices through lectures, field visits, communications so as to help participants gain knowledge on the technological requirement, investment mode, operation mode, maintenance and administration of expressway construction and operation, which will help them gain the knowledge and skills of expressway systematic management. Other lectures including Overview on China, China's reform and opening up, Chinese painting and calligraphy, Chinese martial arts, were arranged to help participants know more about China from society, economy and culture point of view.

Participants also had the opportunity to visit CRSG Headquarters in Zhengzhou City to learn more about the company's operations and meet and interact with management and staff of the company.

China Railway Seventh Group is a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited and headquartered in Zhengzhou. The company owns general contracting qualification in Railway Engineering and Construction of special grade and levels A construction qualification and the right to contract for management abroad in roads, municipal engineering, bridge, roadbed, channel and urban rail transit. The major business of the company involves railway, road, municipal engineering, urban rail transit, and reconnaissance both home and abroad.

The participants have called for a sustainable cooperation between China and Sierra Leone so as to enable their country to catch up with economic development.

They described China as a country with so many opportunities and is willing to move along with development in African countries. "China is a land with global opportunities where everything is humanly and technologically possible," says one of the students, who added that the country has a standard infrastructure with well-managed roads and subways.

Another student described China as an amazing country with rich culture and has topped the world in terms of road and railway constructions. He said CRSG is capable of transforming Sierra Leone and the African Continent.

"We may not know what the future holds for Sierra Leone but a full-time China-Sierra Leone cooperation will bring about a better and brighter future for our country and the African Continent," he said and further remarked that China believes in watch-word development, which has kept the country alive.

The Chinese believe that building roads serves as a basis for a country's development.

The Sierra Leonean students described China as a beautiful country that brings good memories in terms of their well-managed culture, friendly people, respectful citizens, and willingness to share ideas and have a philosophy of promoting the world's development.

It is no longer a secret that China's economy is growing stronger and the Asian Giant is sharing its prosperity with countries in the world, including the African Continent, which continues to enjoy a helping hand from China in a win-win development cooperation. 

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