This short film made by CGTN documents the history, present situation and prospects of the Tazara Railway which links Zambia and Tanzania. By far China’s largest foreign aid project at the time, it was built during the first half of the 1970s, when China was itself still a poor country and after the United States, … Continue reading Tazara: Why China built a railway that many thought would fail
China wasn’t even a significant train country back then. Imagine a modern version of it.