As the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, which connects the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and the capital Nairobi, is about to be officially completed and opened to traffic on the 31st, Kenyan officials have praised the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, saying that the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway will inject new impetus into Kenya's economic and social development.

Kenya's internal railway is a one-meter "meter gauge" railway built in the British colonial era a hundred years ago. Since the 1990 s, the old narrow-gauge railway technology has been aging and dilapidated, and its speed has dropped from the originally designed 70 kilometers per hour to 40 kilometers per hour. Mombasa is just over 400 kilometers from Nairobi, but the journey takes 10 to 12 hours. In addition to the expensive civil aviation, the transportation of the two places mainly depends on long-distance buses. As a result, most of Kenya's cargo transportation has been transferred to the roads, which are often filled with large trucks, and traffic jams are commonplace, which can not meet the demand for freight at all.

Since President Xi Jinping put forward the "Belt and Road Initiative" initiative, under the principle of "joint consultation, joint construction and sharing", the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, the flagship project of practical cooperation between China and Kenya, connects Mombasa, the largest port in East Africa, with Nairobi, an international city in Africa. it is the first railway built in Kenya in more than a hundred years and the largest infrastructure construction project in Kenya since the founding of the people's Republic of China. Since the official start of construction on December 12, 2014, Chinese railway builders have fulfilled Kenya's "Century Railway Dream" in only two and a half years, asking Kenya and those who question whether China has the ability to repair this "crazy railway". People handed over a perfect answer.

The 472-kilometer-long Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is the first international trunk railway built with Chinese standards, Chinese technology, Chinese equipment manufacturing and Chinese management. It adopts Chinese standard design and is designed to have a passenger speed of 120 kilometers per hour and a freight speed of 80 kilometers per hour. After the opening of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, the cargo transportation time has been shortened from two days to 8 hours for traditional truck transportation, which greatly reduces the operating costs of enterprises. In terms of passenger transport, the time for local residents to take the train from Nairobi to Mombasa will be shortened from 7. eight hours in the past to about four hours now, bringing new choices and new experiences for people to travel.

The Mombasa-Inner Mongolia Railway is a "catalyst" for the integration process in East Africa ". During the construction period, the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway created about 46000 jobs for Kenya and trained a total of 18000 local employees. Driving Kenya's GDP growth by 1.5, when completed, local logistics costs can be reduced by 40%. According to the long-term plan, after the completion of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, it will mainly undertake the cargo transportation tasks of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo (DRC) and South Sudan, which will effectively promote the interconnection and integration construction of East Africa, further improve the East African railway network, increase the transport capacity of East African countries, promote the interconnection and integration construction of East Africa, and promote the economic development and improvement of people's livelihood in Africa.

The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is another model project of China's railway "going out" after the Yaji Railway. In Kenya's Monnet Railway, Chinese elements can be seen everywhere. The station designed by imitating China's high-speed railway station, the same cross-line overpass as that in China, and even the canopy, electronic screen and clock in the station are all designed and made in China. Let the Chinese railway to the world, let the world railway made in China. With China's railway "going out", Chinese standards and Chinese technology have been recognized and praised by more and more countries. It is believed that in the future, China's railways will continue to expand in overseas markets, and made in China will certainly shine and take root abroad.