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YUSHO CHO, Nikkei staff writer

SHANGHAI -- Anhui Foreign Economic Construction, a midtier private-sector player in China's building industry, has landed infrastructure projects in far-flung places like Tanzania under Beijing's continent-spanning Belt and Road initiative

The company has also built soccer stadiums across Africa, in such countries as Zambia, Mozambique and Madagascar.

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