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Workers build a conference center in Shenzhen. China faces a peak in corporate bond repayments ahead in the next few years. © Reuters

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

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