{"id":49650,"date":"2024-05-21T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T02:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=49650"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T02:16:01","slug":"zimbabwe-in-talks-with-china-for-533-million-revamp-of-state-railway-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=49650","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe in Talks with China for $533 Million Revamp of State Railway Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1004Z:ZH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zimbabwe<\/a>&nbsp;is in talks with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/390:HK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China Railway Group Ltd.<\/a>&nbsp;to help modernize the state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe that we could make use of their expertise and financial muscle to improve the NRZ,\u201d Finance Minister\u00a0Mthuli Ncube\u00a0said in a weekend interview. \u201cIt needs an upgrade in the fixed stocks as well as rolling stocks and signaling.\u201d The southern African nation has lagged behind the rail improvement of neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe\u00a0is in talks with\u00a0China Railway Group Ltd.\u00a0to help modernize the state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":49651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,163],"tags":[266,9489],"class_list":["post-49650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","tag-china","tag-zimbabwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49652,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49650\/revisions\/49652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}