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Join a Virtual “Open Day” Tour of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital Hosted by Chinese Construction Company’s Odd Mascot

by Eric Olander

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) held a virtual “Open Day” (kind of like an open house) for everyone to see how the construction of the new Egyptian administrative capital is coming along.

It’s an interesting video just to see the enormous scale of the construction that’s now underway outside of Cairo, where the Central Business District of the new administrative capital is currently being built.

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