China Road and Bridge Corporation

China Road and Bridge Corporation Company Limited
legal form	Public company
founding	1979
Seat	Beijing , People's Republic of China
management	Wen Gan ( Chairman )
Branch	Infrastructure, civil engineering
Website	www.crbc.com
As of June 23, 2018

The China Road and Bridge Corporation , or CRBC for short, ( Chinese  路桥 建设  /  路橋 建設 , Pinyin Lùqiáo Jiànshè , English Road and Bridge Construction ) is a Chinese state-owned company that is primarily engaged in civil engineering, i.e. building, tunnel, Road and bridge projects. It belongs to the China Communications Construction Company group .

Company history

The company, founded in 1979, is one of the largest of its kind in the People's Republic of China ; since 2005 it has been part of the China Communications Construction Company. The company is active worldwide in civil engineering, mostly on behalf of the Chinese government, it has more than 40 branches all over the world. Numerous construction projects of the company are part of the Chinese development cooperation.

CRBC is the largest and most active state-owned construction company on the African continent. According to the OECD, CRBC carried out more than 500 construction projects in Africa in 2004.

criticism

CRBC are accused of collusion on a construction project in the Philippines by the World Bank . As a result, the company is blocked for projects financed by the World Bank for eight years. CRBC denies the allegations. Bribery allegations were also raised when a railroad project was awarded in Kenya in 2014 .

Construction project (selection)

Africa

• Maputo Ring Road (Maputo, Mozambique)
• Maputo – Katembe bridge (Maputo, Mozambique)
• Addis Ababa Ring Road (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
• Universidade 11 de Novembro (Cabinda, Angola)
• Expansion of the port of Nouakchott (Nouakchott, Mauritania)
• Expansion / construction of the Nairobi − Mombasa railway line (Kenya)
• In 2018, at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, a letter of intent was signed with the Malagasy government to build a large port near Antsiranana .

Asia

• Section 14 of the Datong – Xi'an Railway ( Shanxi and Shaanxi Provinces , China)
• Pakbeng Mekong Bridge (Laos)
• Expansion of the Karakoram Highway (Pakistan)

Europe

• Mihajlo Pupin Bridge (Belgrade, Serbia)
• Pelješac Bridge (Croatia)
• Morača Bridge (Montenegro)

Web links

• Official website (Chinese, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Introduction. China Road and Bridge Corporation, accessed November 8, 2014 (English, In 1979, CRBC was formally established and entered the international project contracting market.). 
2. ↑ Mary Kay Magistad: Chinese in Rwanda. Public Radio International (PRI), October 17, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2014 (English): "(...) China Road and Bridge Corporation - the biggest Chinese state-owned enterprise doing infrastructure construction in Africa." 
3. ↑ Laurent Bossard: 9.1.2 Investments. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: West African Studies: Regional Atlas of West Africa. OECD, CSAO / SWAC, 2009, p. 156 , archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; Retrieved on November 11, 2014 (English): "Of the thousands of projects executed in Africa, 500 are exclusively conducted by the China Road and Bridge Corporation, a construction company." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ China Communications Construction Denies Philippines Wrongdoing. Bloomberg, January 15, 2009, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
5. ↑ PR China is East Africa's most important supplier. (No longer available online.) German Trade & Invest, February 6, 2014, archived from the original on October 25, 2015 ; Retrieved November 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Carlos Possik: Obras because "Estrada Circular de Maputo" em estado de avançado execução. (No longer available online.) In: Jornal Debate. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014 ; Retrieved October 13, 2014 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Closing the gap from Mozambique to South Africa. Gauff Engineering, August 25, 2014, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
8. ^ Ponte Maputo-Katembe na imprensa. Gauff Engineering, accessed March 11, 2017 (Portuguese). 
9. ↑ Ring Road in Addis Ababa Constructed by Chinese Company Inaugurated. In: People Daily. April 7, 2003, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
10. ^ Peng Mo, Ryan J. Orr, Jianzhong Lu: Addis Ababa Ring Road Project . A Case Study of a Chinese Construction Project in Ethiopia. Shanghai November 2008 ( stanford.edu [PDF; accessed November 8, 2014]).
11. ^ Angola Cabinda University Project. China Road and Bridge Corporation, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
12. ↑ A grand completion ceremony of Friendship Harbor No. 4 and No. 5 berth construction project is held. China Road and Bridge Corporation, August 5, 2014, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
13. ^ Justin McDonnell: China and Kenya Expand Cooperation With Railroad Project. In: The Diplomat. December 13, 2013, accessed November 11, 2014 . 
14. ↑ La CITES a dit non à la proposition de l'Etat d'indemniser les trafiquants de bois précieux ( Memento of the original of November 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , lachasse-info.com (accessed November 6, 2018) 
15. ↑ Madagascar décroche plusieurs accords avec la Chine , chine-magazine.com (accessed November 6, 2018)
16. ↑ 14 Bid Section of Datong – Xi'an High-Speed ​​Railway. China Road and Bridge Corporation, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
17. ↑ Vice Prime Minister of Laos attends the commencement ceremony of Pakbeng Mekong River-Crossing Bridge. China Road and Bridge Construction, December 24, 2012, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
18. ^ Highway witnesses Pakistan-China friendship. In: Ecns.cn. May 16, 2013, accessed November 8, 2014 . 
19. ^ Zemun-Borča bridge completed by autumn 2014. International Radio Serbia, January 10, 2013, accessed on November 8, 2014 . 
20. ↑ HC odabrao: Kinezi će graditi Pelješki most, evo o kakvoj je tvrtki riječ. dnevnik.hr, January 12, 2018, accessed January 13, 2018 (Croatian). 
21. ↑ CHINA ROAD AND BRIDGE COMPANY - PHOTO: JUTARNJI U CRNOGORSKOM KAMPU KINESKIH GRADITELJA PELJEŠKOG MOSTA U susjednoj državi grade autocestu, provjerili smo kako su organizirali posao. jutarnji.hr, accessed June 24, 2018 .