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| Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, 坦桑尼亚 |
China is playing a significant role in helping Tanzania to
become the regional economic power house of East Africa by providing financial
support in development of major infrastructure projects.
Tanzania's 坦桑尼亚 economic fortunes
have been boosted by the discovery of vast natural gas reserves in the
southern regions of Mtwara and Lindi, but it is China's investment that is helping to
bring the new gas resources on stream as it is financing the major energy and infrastructure projects .
China 中国is
financing a US$1.2 billion gas pipeline project from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam,
which is expected to be completed later this year. Once completed, Tanzania
will start to export its power to its East African neighbours in 2015.
In addition, China 中国 is
also financing two mega-power projects at Kinyerezi area in Dar es Salaam, the
Kinyerezi I and II which are expected to boost electricity generation
for domestic consumption and export.
The Asian economic power house will also finance
construction of a port, special economic zone and a railway network at the
historical town of Bagamoyo on the coast in a project estimated to involve
more than US$10 billion.
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| Map of Tanzania 坦桑尼亚, Bagamoyo where the new port will be built |
It is against this backdrop that Tanzania is on
course to become the East African regional economic power. Tanzania is soon likely to have
the potential to become the regional
centre for trade, manufacturing, logistics and IT upon completion of the major
gas pipeline project and other mega electricity projects as well as the
envisaged construction of Bagamoyo port.
Tanzania also has the potential to become the regional centre of
tourism due to its tourists attractions including two out of seven wonders of
the world. Tanzania is home to Mt. Kilimanjaro which at 5985m it is
Africa's highest peak and the world's tallest freestanding mountain.
It is also home to the Serengeti National Park, famous for
its annual migration of over 1.5 million white bearded wildebeest and 250,000
zebra. China is also working with Tanzania to improve tourist
infrastructure such as hotels and transport services to make it an even more desirable tourist
destination.
