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After years of making inroads into foreign markets, Chinese railway companies are starting to expand their strategies. A series of setbacks have plagued Chinese companies attempting to export railway technology and build railroads overseas in the past few years. But now, a deal between two Chinese rail companies and two African nations shows that railway operation is becoming the name of the game.
經過多年努力，中國鐵路公司開始拓展策略方陣。過去幾年，中國鐵路公司期望技術出口，中國鐵路海外建的目標屢遭失敗。但如今，兩家中方鐵路公司與非洲兩國達成協議，鐵路運行已變得尤為重要。
Rail builder China Railway Construction Corporation, or CRCC, and railway operator China Railway Corp. recently told Caixin that they will operate a railroad linking the capitals of Ethiopia and Djibouti for six years with immediate effect. The 750-kilometer railroad between Addis Ababa and Djibouti City was built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corp., a CRCC subsidiary. It cost US$4 billion to build and was completed late last year.
近日，中國鐵建股份有限公司（CRCC）以及鐵路運營商中國鐵路總公司在接受財新采訪時表示，中方獲得“埃塞─吉布提鐵路”六年運營權，這條鐵路也將連接兩國首都。這條鐵路連接吉布提港和亞的斯亞貝巴，全長750公里，由中國鐵建股份有限公司子公司，中國土木工程集團有限公司建造而成。赤字40億美金，并已于去年年底完工。
Chinese companies were heavily involved in building infrastructure for the Ethiopia-Djibouti project, from manufacturing trains to laying tracks. But the decision to control railroad operations is a relatively new direction – and a potentially risky one.
從建造鐵路到鋪設鐵路，在“埃塞─吉布提”項目中，中國公司在基礎設施項目上投入巨大。但贏得鐵路運營權實屬新方向，且有點冒險。
Zhao Jian, an economics professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, said that operating railroads overseas may come with political risks related to sovereignty and stability. He said that rail companies in developed countries like Japan and Germany have opted for selling railway technology and trains over operating railroad networks abroad.
北京交大經濟學教授趙堅表示，海外運營權或將產生與主權和穩定相關的政治風險。他表示像德國和日本等發達國家，他們的鐵路公司選擇技術出口和銷售鐵路，而不是獲得海外運營權。
But Chinese rail companies are plunging ahead on overseas railway operations, both in East Africa and in Southeast Asia. Aside from the Ethiopia-Djibouti link, CRCC made a deal with several Indonesian firms last year to co-build and co-operate a 142-kilometer line, which will link the capital Jakarta with the country’s third-largest city Bandung. The project is expected to be completed in 2018.
而在運營權方面，中國鐵路公司在西非和東南亞一直高歌猛進。除了“埃塞─吉布提鐵路”，中國鐵建股份有限公司去年與多家印尼鐵路公司達成協議，雙方將共同建設，共同運營這條全長142公里鐵路，這條鐵路將連接首都雅加達和第三大城市萬隆。該項目預計將于2018年完工。
Meanwhile, transportation infrastructure builder China Communications Construction Co. recently announced that it will bid for the right to operate a railway line between Nairobi and Mombasa, two major cities in Kenya. An employee told Caixin that the transportation infrastructure company is confident that it can land the deal.
與此同時，中國交通建設集團有限公司近日宣布，將競標內羅畢到蒙巴薩（肯尼亞兩大城市）鐵路運營權。某職員在接受財新采訪時表示，我們對簽署這份協議信心滿滿。
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