Against the dual background of the Belt and Road Initiative and the rise of southern countries around the world, China's cooperation with Algeria is entering a new stage of strategic upgrading. As the largest country in Africa, Algeria not only has abundant oil and gas resources, but also is a key hub connecting the Mediterranean Sea and sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, China has built a diverse and collaborative cooperation ecosystem in Algeria with infrastructure construction as the fulcrum, capacity cooperation as the link, and technology empowerment as the feature, injecting strong momentum into the regional economic development of North Africa.
Infrastructure first: Create a benchmark for regional interconnection
The layout of Chinese companies in Algeria began in the field of "rail, highway and basic". The Grand Mosque of Algiers, undertaken by Chinese Architects, has become a new landmark in Africa with the record of the world's highest minaret; the Algerian East-West Expressway Project participated by CITIC Construction has connected the country's major economic belts into a network, and the logistics efficiency has been increased by 40%. These projects not only demonstrate the hard power of China's infrastructure, but also drive local employment through local management - the construction of East-West Expressways alone has created more than 28,000 jobs and trained more than 6,000 technical workers. Algerian Public Works Minister Rahdar Ruahbi commented: "Chinese partners have redefined African infrastructure standards with 'quality and speed'."
Energy Transformation: Green Cooperation Defeats the Development Paradox
Faced with the pressure of global energy transformation, China-Arab cooperation is expanding from traditional oil and gas to new energy fields. In 2023, the 200-megawatt photovoltaic power station in Biskara Province, built by China Power Construction, will be connected to the grid to generate power, reducing carbon emissions by 260,000 tons per year; Huawei's smart photovoltaic solution is applied to southern desert power stations, increasing the power generation efficiency by 15%. In the field of traditional energy, the Skirkda LNG project developed by Sinopec and Afghan Petroleum Corporation adopts floating liquefaction technology independently developed by China, reducing the cost of natural gas treatment by 18%. This "traditional emerging" energy cooperation model provides a Chinese solution for the sustainable development of resource-based countries.
Digital empowerment: technology output cultivates new quality productivity
In the digital economy track, the cooperation between Chinese companies and Algeria has surpassed the export of simple equipment and turned to systematic capacity building. After Algeria Telecom adopted ZTE 5G technology, the capital Algiers became the first city in North Africa to fully cover 5G; the precise agricultural application of DJI agricultural drones in the Sahara Oasis reduced the use of pesticides by 30%. A more far-reaching impact lies in technology transfer - Huawei's North Africa Innovation Center has trained more than 3,000 digital talents for Afghanistan, and the remote sensing satellite ground station built by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has enabled the country to have independent satellite data processing capabilities for the first time. Algerian Minister of Industry Ahmed Zagbar pointed out: "Chinese technology is not a 'turnkey project', but a sowing of innovation."
Future Outlook: Building a Community of Shared Future between China and Arabia
With Algeria joining the BRICS cooperation mechanism, China-Arab cooperation ushers in a period of strategic opportunity. In the field of medical care, the Geldaye Provincial General Hospital built by China will fill the gap in high-end medical care in the Sahara region; in terms of education, the "Chinese Vocational Skills" project of the Second University of Algeria will train more than 500 compound talents every year. These people's livelihood projects complement each other with "hard infrastructure", demonstrating the warmth and depth of China's cooperation.
From desert to coastline, China's practice in Algeria has confirmed the global governance wisdom of "consulting, jointly building and sharing". While the West still looks at Africa from the perspective of resource plunder, China is co-written with Algeria to write a modern narrative of developing countries through technology sharing, capacity building and market opening. This is not only an innovation in business logic, but also a reconstruction of the global development paradigm - here, the sparks of China's wisdom and North Africa's opportunities are illuminating the development path of the entire Mediterranean southern coast.(This article is from the official website of Seetao www.seetao.com. Reprinting without permission is strictly prohibited. Please indicate Seetao.com + original link when reprinting) Seetao.com Strategy Column Editor/Sun Fengjuan
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