Kenya's first railroad, a meter-gauge railway, was born in 1901 and was built by the British at that time. Semy, a Kenyan employee of CCCC's Kenya Project Department, has a deep memory of this 931-kilometer-long railroad.

However, natural aging and lack of maintenance have gradually reduced its operating speed, and caused rollover accidents. The usage rate was getting lower and lower, and most of the cargo transportation in Kenya was gradually shifted to road transportation.

Over a hundred years later, CCCC built the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway and the Phase I of the Nariobi-Malaba Railway. The newly-built railroad is basically parallel to the Mombasa-Naivasha section of the meter-gauge railway and is the largest infrastructure project since Kenya's independence. In order to further promote economic development, the Kenyan government has launched the rehabilitation of the Naivasha-Malaba section of the meter-gauge railway and the new meter-gauge railway linking the Naivasha ICD and the main line of the meter-gauge railway.

The newly-built section of the meter-gauge railway is 20 kilometers long and the rehabilitated section is 465 kilometers long, which is constructed by CRBC under CCCC.

Unlike a century ago, the Chinese team employed a large number of Kenyan workers during the construction, which improved the local employment rate and increased the income of local people. During the construction of the rehabilitated section, the project department provided more than 30,000 temporary jobs. Technical training was provided to the newly recruited staff, which also trained a large number of technicians for local people.

With the support from Kenya Railways and residents along the line, the project progressed beyond expectations. In this July, the new the meter-gauge railway was put into operation, and the main part of the rehabilitation project was also completed.

A new 5 km long passenger line was also completed and put into operation at the end of July this year.

"Well done! This project provides a real convenient transport for local people's travel and regional logistics." The then president of Kenya, who attended the inauguration ceremony said.