中國鐵建在非洲簽下55億美元合同

A Chinese state-owned rail company has signed $5.5bn worth of contracts in Africa, in the latest sign that the country’s “New Silk Road” strategy to build infrastructure around the developing world is showing tangible results.

中國國有鐵路公司中國鐵建(CRCC)在非洲簽下了價值55億美元的合同。這是中國“新絲綢之路”戰略取得的最新成果。這一戰略旨在幫助發展中國家建設基礎設施。

African units of China Railway Construction Corp will build a $3.5bn intercity rail line in Nigeria and a $1.9bn residential real estate project in Zimbabwe, the company said in exchange filings overnight on Monday.

在週一晚提交給證券監管機構的文件中，該公司稱，其非洲分部將在尼日利亞建設一條造價35億美元的城際鐵路線，在津巴布韋建設一個造價19億美元的住宅地產項目。

The latest deal follows a $12bn contract that CRCC reportedly signed for a separate rail line in Nigeria last November, days after Mexico cancelled a $3.6bn high-speed rail contract with a consortium led by CRCC.

此最新協議達成之前，有報道稱，中國鐵建去年11月與尼日利亞簽署了建造另一條鐵路線的協議。在簽下該協議幾天之前，墨西哥取消了與一個由中國鐵建牽頭的財團達成的36億美元的高鐵建設合同。

CRCC said financing for its rail project had not been finalised but last week state media reported that China’s central bank would use the country’s foreign exchange reserves to inject $62bn in fresh capital into the country’s non-commercial “policy banks”, which are expected to play a key role in supporting the New Silk Road initiative.

中國鐵建表示，最新尼日利亞鐵路項目的資金來源尚未最終敲定。但上週中國國有媒體報道稱，中國央行將使用本國外匯儲備，向國內的“政策性銀行”注入620億美元新資金。預計政策性銀行將在支持新絲綢之路計劃方面發揮關鍵作用。

China Development Bank, the largest of China’s three policy banks, has granted more loans to Africa than the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank combined over the past six years, the official China Daily newspaper reported in December.

據官方的《中國日報》去年12月的報道，作爲中國三大政策性銀行中最大的一家，國家開發銀行(CDB)過去6年向非洲提供的貸款超過了世界銀行(World Bank)、非洲開發銀行(African Development Bank)和亞洲開發銀行(Asian Development Bank)同期對非洲貸款之和。