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In Depth: Chinese Contractors Undergird Middle East Building Boom

Flying into the Saudi Arabian capital on a mid-October evening, a Chinese building contractor looked down at the sprawl below and said: “Riyadh feels like one giant construction site.”

The half-hour drive from the airport to Diriyah, an ancient city on the northwestern outskirts of the capital, reinforced that view. The night was illuminated not just by city lights, but by the floodlights of countless building sites, where work went on around the clock.