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China s infrastructure construction continues to see steady progress, with the high-speed railway sector recently reporting new milestones thanks to increasingly intensified efforts from State-owned construction companies.
A subsidiary of State-owned China Railway Construction Corp plans to build more infrastructure projects in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries in the coming years.
Many businesses and governments in Africa long relied on aging railroads and port facilities to ship valuable cargo such as coal and precious metals for export. Their early, narrow-gauge railways could handle only steam-powered trains traveling at up to 40 kilometers per hour or so, and their loads were limited.