2018年CRI Belt and Road Initiative helps link African continent: Kenyan President
时间：2019-02-22 作者：英语课 分类：2018CRI中国国际广播电台
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says the Belt and Road Initiative will help link the African continent, helping 1 to achieve mutual 2 benefits for all participating countries.
China and Kenya have maintained solid relations since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1963. President Uhuru Kenyatta says Kenya is set to play an important role in China's Belt and Road Initiative.
"I think it's tremendous, because what is the objective, the objective is to open up our economies to trade. The objective is to encourage trade amongst us connecting Asia, parts of Europe, through the Gulf 3 region with Arab states, linking ourselves all the way through the African continent from the eastern side of Africa all the way across to the west, right? And I believe it has huge potential for a win-win situation for all who are involved and that is why we are very keen as a country and I believe also the continent to partner strongly with China in this initiative," Kenyatta says.
Infrastructure 4 funding has always been a big problem for African countries. Under the Belt and Road Initiative, Kenya has received funding for major projects.
Kenya's Mombasa-to-Nairobi Standard Gauge 5 Railway (SGR) is built with aid from China. At 3.2 billion U.S. dollars, the SGR is Kenya's largest infrastructure project since independence.
"We're working with development partners. Our friends in China have been of huge assistance. Since China became strongly involved in Kenya and in Africa you see in the tremendous growth and infrastructure across the continent," Kenyatta notes.
Kenyatta says Kenya longs for a free and open trade policy. He hopes for greater cooperation with other countries in the region to achieve common prosperity.
"We are working together at the multilateral level to ensure prosperity for all. Closing yourselves up, I think it's short sighted, it's a short sighted vision. There's no long term position in it, because all that is going to happen is people are taking advantages, unfortunately maybe because of slowdowns and etc, thinking that if they close themselves in and that may protect their industries, but at the end of the day, that can only hurt as opposed to add value."
The Kenyan president is optimistic about the future of China-Africa ties and is looking forward to the upcoming Beijing Summit of the Forum 6 on China-Africa Cooperation.
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
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- We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
- Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
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- It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。