Chinese construction firm makes big global strides

China State Construction Engineering Corp, China's biggest construction company, is playing a major role in improving the economic prospects of many nations across the world through its sustainable development projects, particularly in Africa.

The State-owned firm has businesses in more than 130 countries and regions and till date built around 6,000 projects, covering housing construction and infrastructure construction in areas such as energy, transportation, water conservancy, petrochemicals, and telecommunications.

Prominent among these are the new national stadium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the Peshawar-Karachi Motorway Project in Pakistan.