Building boom brings big opportunities

China Communications Construction Co lends a hand to industrial park and infrastructure projects throughout the African country

ADDIS ABABA - For a first time visitor to Ethiopia, it is hard to miss the construction boom all across the country.

Indeed many expatriates compare it with China's own construction boom of the 1980s and 1990s, which eventually saw the Asian country become the world's second-largest economy and the largest trading partner to many nations.