China Flexes Rail Muscle to Running Overseas Projects

(Beijing) – China's ambitious rail sector is eyeing opportunities to not only build infrastructure overseas but also manage routes as it clinched operating deals in two East African countries.

Chinese rail builders China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. (CRCC) and rail system operator China Railway Corp. (CRC) won a recent bid to operate a light rail project linking Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa with Djibouti's capital Djibouti City for six years, an employee of CRCC told Caixin.