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"Well. I also saw it when I got off the plane. The infrastructure here is too weak. We have started to build smart roads in China. Even the coverage of ordinary roads here is very low." Guo Chu said with empathy, "But this It also shows that the market here is very promising.”

"But the business is not good!" Bai Tongxi took him to the temporary residential area and said, "We have encountered too many troubles in the past few months. And it is something we have never thought of in China before."

"It's even worse now that the progress of the project has completely stopped, and it can't continue! If this is the case, I think our group will withdraw from Nigeria!"

"So serious?" Guo Chu frowned.

"It's not too serious. What's more serious is that not only did the bamboo basket fetch water empty, but also blood loss!" Guo Chu said this with some resentment.

Zhongnan Construction Group entered the African market just last year, first conducting infrastructure construction in an area in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The project includes a long-distance road, a transit railway and part of urban construction.

Since last year, they have begun to deliver workers and construction machinery to Nigeria, and recruited local workers to start construction. But more than nine months have passed, and their progress has not reached one-third of the original plan, but the expenditure has more than tripled the budget!

"The construction conditions here are so poor that I've never seen it in my first half of my life!" Bai Tongxi complained, "The government management here is extremely chaotic, and we waste a lot of money just by running various procedures and managing all aspects. effort."

"Even so, our safe construction conditions cannot be guaranteed. Robbers and thieves are often infested, staring at us to rob and steal. Last month, three workers were injured, and one worker almost died. Now they are sent back to China for recuperation. The workers The mood is not very good, and many workers are asking to return to China."

"And our construction machinery. Once, several large-scale machinery were directly snatched by gunmen, and the loss reached tens of millions!"

Bai Tongxi is full of bitterness. After staying in peaceful China for a long time, he feels unhappy here.

Nigeria, despite being the most populous country in Africa, has poor policing. Because of poverty, tribes, beliefs and other issues, armed conflicts occur from time to time in many places.

As for the crime of robbery and extortion, it happens almost every day. In the eyes of criminals here, foreigners are "rich people" and are more likely to be their targets.

These days, the people of Zhongnan Construction Group have suffered a lot.

In order to integrate here, they also specially trained local people as bodyguards and laborers, but unfortunately, the role of these people is also limited. Those local workers are almost here to eat, grind foreign workers, paddle water, and run away when they are in danger.

Bai Tongxi took Guo Chu to the construction site to see. They were riding in a modified off-road vehicle. The doors and windows were bulletproof, and there were bodyguards with guns on the vehicle. This made Guo Chu really feel that it was indeed dangerous to travel here.

What they were looking at was a railway, which was built to transport mineral resources. Nearby, there is a huge iron mine, which is also mined by a Chinese company.

The small section in front of the railway is okay, it has been built, and workers are responsible for inspection and maintenance every day. And when it was interrupted, the construction was interrupted here, and no workers started work.

When Guo Chu and others arrived, they found that several black people were stealing things at the construction site. The black bodyguards in the car got out of the car immediately, shouted at them with guns, and those people hurriedly fled.

"These black people are poor people from nearby villages or tribes who often come to steal things." Bai Tongxi said in a helpless and sad tone, "It doesn't work if we call the police. We wounded them, but instead they found the tribe, and a whole bunch of people came to us to make trouble."

"Once a few thieves were injured, we lost tens of thousands of dollars. Do you think there is such a reason in the world?"

"It really doesn't make sense." Guo Chu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Bai Tongxi continued: "The construction here has been stopped, because of the recent robbery and injury incident, some workers are unwilling to work here. Several of our excavators, cranes, etc. have also been taken away. to redeploy."

"And safety can't be guaranteed, and it's not easy for us to start work."

Guo Chu asked: "How do others do? Those other Huaxia companies."

"Not all places are so chaotic," Bai Tongxi said. "In some places, security is okay, and some companies have hired their own security teams. As long as they don't encounter large-scale armed conflicts, there is basically no problem."

"We also tried to do this and found that it didn't work at all. I'm afraid someone deliberately made trouble. When we first came here last year, one of the local black bodyguards we hired died!"

"This project is too difficult to do! The domestic situation is so good, sometimes I want to go back to China to do it."

Guo Chu knew that Bai Tongxi was under too much pressure during this time, so he comforted: "Didn't I come to help you? No matter how difficult it is, we have to finish this project, we have invested so much, and giving up halfway is a huge loss! "

"Besides, this is also our experience in engineering projects in Africa. It would be a pity to give up such a large market in Africa as a whole."

"We have to relocate workers and machines from China." Bai Tongxi only complained a little, and never thought about giving up.

"I'm afraid, I will encounter the previous situation again."

"You don't have to worry about this. We just ordered a batch of new equipment from Pengyun Machinery. When the order arrives, I will directly transfer here. I guarantee you will be surprised! The problem of labor shortage should be solved easily." Guo Chu Said, "You said just now that someone may have deliberately disturbed, what is the situation?"

"There is a Gora tribe nearby. Their strength is relatively strong, and their chiefs are also more domineering. We are building nearby to give them 'benefits'. But their chiefs are a little too greedy and think we don't give enough. He once hinted at threatening to cause chaos for us, and I suspect it was him." Bai Tongxi explained.

Guo Chu knew him well, and Bai Tongxi always spoke conservatively, so he had some doubts, that was almost certain. This problem is really difficult to solve.

Nigeria is not a modern country in the true sense. There are many tribes in the country. In some areas, tribal chiefs have considerable power and even have their own armed forces. Armed conflicts between tribes are not uncommon.

Even if the local government allows them to build here, they have nothing to do if the nearby chiefs want to trouble them.