On November 3, 2021, Zhang Yijun, Minister Counselor of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, visited the China Energy Construction Gezhouba Group's Kenya Swak Dam Project for on-site inspection and guidance, and showed concern and condolences to overseas frontline employees. in. The heads of Gezhouba Group Kenya Branch and Swak Dam Project Department accompanied the inspection.

Counselor Zhang Yijun and his entourage went to the dam spillway, diversion tunnel, dam backfill area, sand-gravel mixing system and other places to conduct on-site inspections. They listened to a brief report from the person in charge of the project department and expressed condolences to the interested builders who were working on the site. During the inspection, Counselor Zhang Yijun and his entourage carefully inquired about the safety production of the project department, the vaccination of Chinese employees and the rotation of returning to the country, especially the explosive storage and the Hippo reserved area, and asked everyone to pay attention to safety, and expressed their sincere appreciation to the employees for sticking to their posts during the epidemic. . After the inspection, Counselor Zhang Yijun spoke highly of the various tasks of the project department and said that he would fully support the various tasks of the project department and promote the smooth implementation of the project.

At present, the project department has completed the development and support of the main body of the spillway of the dam, and the main body of the diversion tunnel is nearing completion, and it is expected to be completed within the year. The main foundation backfilling of the dam has entered a critical period. It is planned to end the light rainy season in 2021, and the closure will be completed after the conditions are met to ensure that the project completion target by the end of 2022 is achieved on schedule.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Swaker Project Department has overcome difficulties and persisted in non-stop work, no layoffs, and no reduction in production, and promoted project implementation on time with quality and quantity, helping local economic recovery and promoting local sustainable development. Gezhouba’s responsible corporate image has been highly recognized by the local people, the Kenyan government, and the Chinese Embassy in Kenya.

The project department also attaches great importance to corporate social responsibility work, integrates the concept of social responsibility into all aspects of project production, gives full play to the advantages of production technology, and shapes a good corporate image. Since the start of construction, the project department has built 44 classrooms, teachers’ offices and drinking water tanks in 13 primary schools in Makuene County and Ktuy County, and renovated three schools in Mavindi Town near the dam. Class-level hospitals, among which school facilities have been completed and accepted at the beginning of 2021 and handed over to the local government. In order to help solve the problems of drinking water and water intake difficulties for residents around the project department, the project department repaired and maintained the road from Makuani Town to the drinking point of the Thwake River, and built a total of 6 drinking water wells in the two counties of the dam area to meet the needs of local people. . Editor/He Yuting