Rebirth of England.

Chapter 680 Uneasiness
"Xu Gong, we are almost at Kolo."

"There's still half an hour left..."

The middle-aged man called Xu Gong glanced at the young man next to him and said with a smile:

"What, are you nervous?"

"A little bit..."

Lu Wei said a little embarrassedly:

"This is my first time going abroad, and to Africa. To be honest, I have never heard of this country before..."

He is an employee of China Construction Fifth Engineering Bureau and has just worked for less than a year. Because of his relatively good English and a little French, he was selected to the project department in Colo after registration. Although Colo is now vigorously promoting English education, before that, the official language of Colo was French, so most adults here still speak French, and the popularity of English is relatively high among young people.

Before coming to Africa, especially those positions in their project department that require communication with local people, some French training will be conducted. But it is obvious that people like Lu Wei who have a basic knowledge of French will have better learning effects. As for other old employees, they basically still need to rely on translation to communicate with local people.

Although he took the initiative to sign up because he was still young and did not have too many family concerns, and the salary and benefits of such overseas project departments were much higher than those in China.

But when he was about to arrive, Lu Wei still felt a little uneasy...

"Mr. Xu, I heard that disease in Africa is quite serious, is that right?"

When Mr. Xu heard Lu Wei's question, he looked at him with a smile. After all, he was a young man full of vigor and vitality.

"I still have to tell you that when you go to Kolo, it's best to know what the local women have. It's not because of AIDS. After all, although the disease was quite serious in Kolo before, they have been strictly controlling it in recent years, and there is also medical support from our country. Now those pathogens have been controlled in some areas, and the sanitation is much better. Diseases like malaria that were very serious in the past are almost gone. But if young people really can't control themselves, what if a girl has a child and comes to your workplace with the child? Not to mention the bad influence, what are you going to do? Just stay here?"

For example, Chinese employees have to receive many types of vaccines before participating in some projects in Africa - because many infectious diseases that have been eradicated in China are still rampant here.

This is also why Lu Wei felt more nervous.

But as Xu Gong said, since the establishment of the new government of Kolo, they have invested a lot of money and manpower to improve the level of medical and health care in the country.

Prior to 2003, malaria was the leading cause of illness (46%) and the leading cause of death (12.26%) among all age groups.

At the same time, the domestic HIV infection rate is as high as 5%, and the mother-to-child transmission rate is 35%!
In addition, tuberculosis is also one of the great threats faced by the public in Kolo...

As early as 2004, Kolo received an interest-free loan of 20 billion Chinese dollars from China, most of which was invested in improving Kolo's overall medical and health care.

At that time, they purchased a large amount of drugs and equipment from China, and with China's assistance, they established a medical school.

After Colo discovered high-yield oil fields in its waters, the Colo government's purse gradually became fatter, and a considerable amount of funds was invested in medical and health care.

At present, malaria, tuberculosis and other once highly prevalent infectious diseases have been basically "eliminated" in Colo, and the new infection rate of AIDS is less than 0.1%. It is remarkable to achieve such an achievement in six years.

What Xu Gong is worried about is nothing more than young people like Lu Wei, who are full of vigor and vitality. For jobs like theirs sent overseas, it can be said that they need to stay in the local area most of the time, so it is very likely that they will feel lonely and something will happen with the local girls... After all, relatively speaking, Chinese men are more family-oriented, which is in sharp contrast to some local men. Therefore, Chinese guys are still quite popular with local girls.

In addition, we have to admit that many local girls, apart from having darker skin, also meet the aesthetic standards based on their looks and figures...

Also, with a job like theirs, it’s easy for them to find girls “beautiful” after a long time…

Things like Chinese employees happening with local girls, or even, as he said, girls coming to look for the father with their children, are not unheard of, so he must take precautions in advance.

"Don't worry, Mr. Xu, I definitely can't accept these local girls. I only like our Chinese girls..."

Hearing Lu Wei's solemn vow, Xu Gong could only hope that it was true.

Soon, the plane landed at the Brittany International Airport. They were on a flight that Colo Airlines had just opened that went directly to China Yanjing. Prior to this, XCMG had participated in projects in Africa many times. For example, when they were in Nigeria, they often had to transfer in Dubai and other places. As for Colo, because there were too few flights before, they even had to transfer twice to get there, which was very troublesome.

Now that there are direct flights to China, it is much more convenient for them.

Moreover, compared to some African local airlines' old and unsafe aircraft, at least the aircraft of Color Air are newer and more comfortable.

Lu Wei was already looking at the scenery outside through the window of the passenger plane with great interest.

Like Lu Wei, there are many Chinese people who came to Kolo for various reasons, and some of them stayed in Kolo and took root there.

……

"In fact, Iceland's sovereign debt crisis had already begun to emerge in October last year, but because Iceland's economy is relatively small, after timely rescue, it did not cause too serious consequences - at least it did not significantly affect other countries..."

As she spoke, Daisy handed a document to Barron.

After reading it, Barron smiled:

“But that doesn’t mean the economies of other countries are healthy, right?”

"Yes, as you requested, we have conducted an in-depth analysis of the debt problems of the eurozone countries..."

Daisy shrugged and said:
"The situation is not optimistic, especially for Greece. We believe that if a sovereign debt crisis breaks out in Europe after the subprime mortgage crisis, it is most likely to start with Greece."

"This is normal. After all, given Greece's situation, it would be surprising if there were no problems amid the subprime mortgage crisis..."

Barron said with a hint of sarcasm:
"We have to thank our friends for this. It was Goldman Sachs that brought Greece to the brink of collapse."

(End of this chapter)