China Wu Yi

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'''China Wu Yi Co., Ltd.''' is a construction and engineering company that carries out international projects as the overseas arm of the Fujian Construction Engineering Group Company.<ref>{{cite web|title=Organization|url=http://www.chinawuyi.com.cn/en/about_zzjg.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131120183726/http://www.chinawuyi.com.cn/en/about_zzjg.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-11-20|publisher=China Wu Yi}}</ref> It reported $334 million in international project work in 2012, placing the company among the 250 largest international contractors as ranked by ''Engineering News-Record''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Top 250 International Contractors|url=http://enr.construction.com/toplists/Top-International-Contractors/101-200.asp|publisher=Engineering News-Record}}</ref>

==Projects== A 2013 report noted it had 18 projects in Kenya.<ref name=radio>{{cite news|title=Chinese Construction of East African Highway in Kenya|url=http://english.cri.cn/6909/2013/08/19/2743s782946.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131120195438/http://english.cri.cn/6909/2013/08/19/2743s782946.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 20, 2013|newspaper=China Radio International|date=August 19, 2013}}</ref> The Kenyan operations of the company is one of the six largest Chinese construction companies in Kenya, competing in a highly competitive market with each other and local and European construction companies.<ref name=engagement>{{cite book|last=Cooke|first=Jennifer G.|title=U.S. and Chinese Engagement in Africa|year=2008|publisher=Center for Strategic and International Studies|location=Washington D.C.}}</ref>

One of the key projects Wu Yi was selected, in September 2006 for, was the $37.2 million first phase of the $1.23 billion modernization of the [[Jomo Kenyatta International Airport]], funded by a syndicate of Kenyan banks and the [[World Bank]].<ref name=engagement /> The company is a contractor in paving the first phase of a road between the border Kenya-Ethiopia border town of [[Moyale]] and [[Isiolo]], a northern Kenyan gateway city in a project worth $63.9 million, funded by the [[African Development Bank]].<ref name=lostroad /> A ''Reuters'' article documenting the project noted there was a pan-African significance to the project as it would lay down tarmac on one of the last unpaved sections of the [[Cairo – Cape Town Highway]].<ref name=lostroad>{{cite news|title=Chinese build new highway to "lost" Kenya|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-africa-china-kenya-idUSL809481820080822|newspaper=Reuters|date=Aug 21, 2008}}</ref>

In another important project, it was one of several Chinese contractors that built the [[Thika]] superhighway, a project that involved widening an existing road that had one lane on one side and two lanes on the other to 12 lanes total.<ref name=radio /> The $360 million project financed by the [[Export-Import Bank of China]] was finished in 2012 on schedule.<ref name=radio />

A scholarly article in 2008 on Kenyan and Chinese economic relations, published by the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]], praised the work of the company in Kenya.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

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[[Category:Construction and civil engineering companies of China]] [[Category:Companies based in Fuzhou]]