Jamlik Mwangi Kariuki, a young Kenyan who once worked on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, twice came to China for further studies, receiving training in railway engineering, thanks to the opportunities provided by the railway. Benefiting from the experience, Kariuki and his classmates wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping, expressing their gratitude. In his reply, President Xi encouraged them to “continue to contribute to the operation and development of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway and to the cause of China-Kenya friendship and cooperation.”

Reference Link:- https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-29/A-path-of-happiness-on-the-Belt-and-Road-1wta82bZiXC/p.html

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By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries. When he came home he set up the China Study Centre at NUST. He retired from there. He writes about CPEC and the Belt and Road, and about what China's rise means for Pakistan. His articles run in Modern Diplomacy and on Think Tank Pakistan, and China Daily and China News Service have both quoted the work.