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China-Africa Salon: A stadium in 2 years, a bond of 42 -- Chinese builders share their Kenya story_我的网站

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An aerial drone photo taken on March 19, 2025 shows the construction site of the Chinese-built Talanta Sports City in Nairobi, Kenya. (Xinhua/Han Xu)In Nairobi, a 60,000-seat football stadium is entering the final stage of construction. Built in just two years, the Talanta Stadium will serve as the main venue of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
"The schedule was extremely tight -- just two years, while comparable projects elsewhere usually take more than three," Du Xiao, project manager of the stadium for China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), told Xinhua in a recent interview. "There is a very real sense of pride."
According to Du, the stadium has no running track, bringing spectators close to the pitch. Its seats take on the green, red and black of Kenya's national flag, while the facade features the traditional shield and spear of the Maasai people.
Upon completion, the stadium is set to be renamed the Raila Odinga International Stadium, in honor of Kenya's late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
The roof adopts a cable-supported grid system erected with a "cable-first, steel-after" method, which Du said is the first of its kind independently designed and built by China. Without temporary steel supports, 48 radial cables are tensioned to lift six ring cables before steel trusses are laid on top, saving at least three months of construction time, with displacement controlled to the millimeter. In 2025 alone, some 1,300 containers of materials and equipment were shipped from China to the site.
For CRBC, the stadium is only the latest chapter of a much longer story. The company built its first road in Kenya in 1984, and over 42 years, its footprint has extended from roads to bridges, ports, railways and buildings.
Du Shan, the executive general manager of CRBC Kenya office, recalled that before 2008, Nairobi was cut apart by three rivers and a cross-district trip could take more than three hours. After CRBC completed the ring roads, the journey now takes about 50 minutes. The company is also expanding the A8, a national trunk road, from two lanes to four and six, she said.
On the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, wildlife corridors were built with a clearance of more than six meters, "so that giraffes can pass with their heads held high," Du Shan said.
Workers are engaged at the construction site of the Chinese-built Talanta Sports City in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 18, 2025. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

Workers are engaged at the construction site of the Chinese-built Talanta Sports City in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 18, 2025. (Xinhua/Han Xu)Du Xiao arrived in Kenya in August 2011 and has worked on the ring roads, the Mombasa-Nairobi railway, the Nairobi-Malaba railway and the Nairobi Expressway before taking on the stadium project.
"Working overseas, we should not arrive thinking about changing the place. We should first adapt to and learn from the local community," he said. "What many projects truly open up is not just roads and railways, but trust between people."
The stadium sits near Kibera, Kenya's largest informal settlement. Du Xiao remembers a local young man named Sammy, who had no skills when he applied for a job but volunteered for the project's equipment training and became a pump truck operator. "I asked him why he worked so hard. He said, 'I never thought I would have the chance to touch these machines. Now I feel I can support my whole family.'"
According to Du Shan, the project recruited nearly 500 young workers from the neighborhood during construction, many of whom have qualified as assistant engineers, while about 280 local youths were mentored into technical backbones during the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi railway.
More than 350 CRBC employees have worked overseas for over a decade, and each year the company awards them a gold medal for long-term dedication, she said. "The medal is not only an honor, but also a kind of warmth. Because 42 years -- it has truly not been easy."
When his child was born, Du Xiao was at a critical stage of the Nairobi Expressway project and could not make it home. "People in overseas engineering live in two worlds -- the project site on one side, the family on the other. All you can do is try to do a little better on each side," he said.
"Maybe I will one day leave this country. But this stadium will remain," he said. "I came here to build projects. Then I found that this country has shaped who I am today."
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《巫师 3：狂猎 Songs of the Past》在 2026 年科隆游戏展开幕之夜直播（ONL）上正式公布了预告片，开发商 CD Projekt Red 现场介绍了全新的锁链武器、Letten 领地以及更多细节。利维亚的杰洛特助力了 2026 年 ONL 的压轴环节，工作室讨论了计划如何在明年为这款备受赞誉的 2015 年角色扮演游戏推出新内容。虽然仍有许多细节尚未公开，但这次首秀终于向玩家展示了在《巫师4 3》首发 12 年后重返该作的体验。

B | 我们将深入探讨 CD Projekt Red 分享的所有细节，但首先，展会为观众准备了另一个惊喜：一段预告片。

C | 你可以在下方查看《巫师4 3 Songs of the Past》的首支先导预告。锁链出击那么，首支《Songs of the Past》预告片告诉了我们什么？遗憾的是，乍看之下内容并不多。杰洛特首先出现在一棵挂满灯笼的树前，随后在营地里与一位可能并不存在的伴侣跳舞。接着，我们看到了 Letten 洒满月光的星空和阳光普照的田野，这也是《Songs of the Past》故事发生的全新领地。杰洛特将面临一系列全新的人类和怪物敌人，虽然这对于一位猎魔人来说并不新鲜，但整个预告片中不断低语的强大反派可能是个新威胁。然而，最让《巫师4 3》粉丝感到兴奋的，可能是视频末尾出现的武器。

D | 短短几秒钟的画面展示了杰洛特使用锁链抓取并控制敌人，随后将其斩首。

E | 这看起来像是直接从《真人快打11》的蝎子手中夺过来的，而且似乎非常契合猎魔人的武器库。欢迎来到 Letten该资料片的官方描述揭示了 Letten 的景象及其与新故事的联系：“这片田园诗般的土地拥有丰富的乡村传统和民俗，那里的人们过着丰收与奢华节日的充实生活。

F | 但在表面之下隐藏着一个黑暗的秘密，杰洛特在努力战胜长期蛰伏的邪恶时，必须克服前所未见的敌人。

G | ”正如展会期间所透露的，粉丝们可以在《Songs of the Past》最终发布前正式将其加入愿望单。

H | CD Projekt Red 表示，新内容将带领玩家前往新的 Letten 领地，尽管目前我们看到的只有预告片中的寥寥数瞥。CD Projekt Red 谈重返《巫师4 3》在等待《Songs of the Past》明年发布的过程中，《巫师4》系列游戏和原著的粉丝肯定能从中挖掘出大量细节，但 CD Projekt Red 并不打算止步于此。关卡设计主管 Miles Tost 登上科隆 ONL 舞台，分享了更多关于该扩展包如何基于原版游戏构建的细节。“这非常酷，”Tost 笑着说，“一段时间以来，我们一直有为杰洛特再创作一个故事的想法，但一直没能确定如何将其排入我们繁忙的日程。幸运的是，我们的朋友 Fool's Theory 伸出了援手，他们聘请了一群《巫师4 3》的老牌资深开发者——包括我的导师 Peter Gelenscer——于是就有了今天的成果。”Tost 指出，这是《巫师4 3》主角的最后一次冒险，之后希里将在 2028 年左右的《巫师4 4》中接过火炬。

I | 给杰洛特配备锁链将使他在《Songs of the Past》中的旅程变得格外令人难忘。“这种锁链是游戏中的新武器，但许多人，也许是资深的《巫师4》粉丝，会意识到这是我们在《巫师4 1》开场动画中首次展示过的武器，”Tost 继续说道，并引导粉丝前往科隆游戏展的 CD Projekt Red 展台了解更多信息。

J | Tost 还分享了关于 Letten 以及该环境将如何为粉丝带来改变的看法：“Letten 是一个全新的、独特的区域，拥有独特的身份标识，就像游戏中的其他区域一样。它充满了任务、新怪物、冒险和探索——正如《巫师4》粉丝所热爱的那样。但这是一个近乎诡异的田园诗般的地方，然而，在表面之下隐藏着一个黑暗的秘密，既然这是一款《巫师4》游戏，这种秘密就需要一位真正的专业猎魔人来解决。”杰洛特终于回来了。《巫师4 3 Songs of the Past》虽然尚未公布确切发售日期，但预计将于 2027 年在 PC、Nintendo Switch 2、PlayStation 5 和 Xbox Series X|S 平台上发布。与此同时，玩家还可以期待在 2026 年科隆 ONL 期间宣布的《巫师 3：狂猎 Remastered》。我们有望在未来几个月内了解更多关于这个惊喜扩展包的信息。同时，开发者最近也确认该插件将为游戏带来更多《巫师之昆特牌》内容。