Quotable

It's a young industry here. The first thing is that you need people to build nuclear power plants, of which the number will amount to more than 100 in the future. So there will be a short supply (of talent) if you don't act now."

Robert Massy, vice-president of global talent management at the US-based Westinghouse Electric Co, speaking during the ninth International Youth Nuclear Congress in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

"We will see the continued rise of Chinese companies to capture that tremendous growth of the local economy."

Adam Xu, partner of Strategy&, a consultancy owned by PricewaterhouseCoopers, commenting after a record 110 Chinese companies made the latest Fortune Global 500 list, with 13 appearing for the first time.

"We will accelerate the construction of railways in central and western parts of China. We will also boost the expansion of intercity and suburban rail links. By the end of 2020, more than 80 percent of mainland cities with populations of at least 1 million will be covered by high-speed railways."

Zhang Dawei, deputy director of the Ministry of Transport's planning department, saying that China intends to lay 30,000 kilometers of train tracks by the end of 2020, extending the total length of its railway network to 150,000 km.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 07/29/2016 page2)