The picture shows the Mecca City Light Rail
Nowadays, China has made a lot of profits in infrastructure projects in many countries around the world, but not all projects are like this, such as China's construction of a railway in the Middle East, which makes Saudi Arabia very grateful, but it has lost more than 4 billion yuan, so why does china not make money and lose money in this project? How did China bring the Middle Eastern tycoons to their knees? What's behind this? It turned out that the reason why China lost money was precisely because of the lack of communication with Saudi Arabia, and later China ate a long and wise, and never lost money again. Mecca City Light Rail: With a total length of 18.25 kilometers, it is the first light rail railway in Saudi Arabia.
The picture shows the Light Rail in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
It is said that the railway built by China in the Middle East is called the Saudi Mecca Light Rail, is an urban light rail line located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Mecca is an important city in Saudi Arabia, because of its special cultural status, it is regarded as a holy city by tens of millions of people around the world, in the annual Hajj season, there will be millions of people from all over the world to gather Saudi Arabia, to Mecca for Hajj, while bringing serious traffic and safety pressure to the city, Saudi Arabia is to alleviate the traffic pressure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia is to alleviate the traffic pressure in Mecca, Only then did they spend a lot of money to invite China to help build the Mecca Urban Light Rail.
China has previously cooperated with Saudi Arabia in a number of railway infrastructure projects, so it did not encounter too many problems in construction, and soon completed the construction of the entire project, but later some people found that in this large order that China should have been able to earn a considerable amount of profits, Chinese construction companies lost nearly 4 billion yuan, and even started a lawsuit with Saudi Arabia, why would China lose money in this project? The reasons are complex, but the main point is that Chinese companies at that time were not experienced enough and lacked communication with the Saudi government.
It turns out that although the Chinese enterprises have strong technical strength, but Saudi Arabia is the first time to build urban light rail, the overall lack of expectations and research on the project, in the initial task to the Chinese enterprises, only gave a more general plan, in order to complete the entire project as soon as possible, Chinese enterprises to make their own claims, improve the technical details after the start of the construction, but after the start of the project Saudi Arabia intervened in the project many times, requiring the modification of technical details, forcing Chinese enterprises to stop work many times for technical program modifications, As a result, a lot of engineering time and resources were wasted, and a lot of changes were made after the railway was finally opened for operation, resulting in soaring construction costs.
It can be seen from this that if Chinese enterprises have perfected communication with Saudi Arabia before the start of the project, confirm the technical details and then start construction, they will not be forced to make multiple suspension modifications, and will not waste resources to cause the cost of the project to rise, after the completion of the project, Chinese enterprises and Saudi Arabia have fought several international lawsuits and recovered some losses, but fortunately Saudi Arabia has enough trust in Chinese enterprises, even if such an event occurs, it is willing to choose China, and the follow-up cooperation project between China and Saudi Arabia has not been affected.
As the saying goes, eat a long and a wise, but also learned a lot of lessons, with a more rigorous attitude to each international infrastructure project, before each start of construction will be perfect communication with the local area, finalized the technical details and then start the project construction, since then China and other countries jointly built the project has never suffered such a painful loss.