China has played an important role in developing the mining industries of Africa’s emerging nations, such as Zambia, where the Asian country’s investment has particularly helped infrastructure development, an important precursor needed for mining, says African Mining Network chairperson Yolanda Torrisi. “In Zambia, project developers and industry representatives are seeing the results from their relationship with Chinese investors. Among the most notable of investments in infrastructure is China’s support with regard to the construction of the Tazara railway from the Zambian Copperbelt to the Indian Ocean through Tanzania, which has been operating for more than 40 years,” Torrisi notes.
