中国助力非洲乡村与世界接轨

江苏 迟 琳

Hehrt curiously watches workers install (安装) a satellite TV at the hospital in which he works.He rushes to the TV and changes channels after it's been installed,and becomes very excited when there is a kung fu movie.“I used to watch Jackie Chan's and Jet Li's kung fu movies,”he said.

It was in June 2019 when China's technical team came to doctor Hehrt's hospital in Olasiti,a small village in Kenya,to help set up a satellite TV signal.Prior to that,the hospi⁃tal had neither a signal nor a television,and sometimes patients would get bored and impa⁃tient after waiting to see a doctor for hours while doing nothing,Hehrt recalled.

“Now it's great that patients can watch TV when they are waiting,”Hehrt said.“And I can watch my favorite football games after work,”he added.

Including Olasiti, China has planned to provide more than 10,000 African villages with digital satellite TV services,helping many in Africa,especially those in rural areas,to broaden their horizons and narrow the digital divide.

Named“Access to Satellite TV for 10,000 African Villages”(or“Wan Cun Tong”in Chinese), the project had been successfully completed in 20 recipient countries in Africa as of August 2021, benefiting more than 6.5 million people in 8,612 villages. Similar to China's many other aid projects in Africa, Wan Cun Tong helps promote the development of Africa's less⁃developed regions and connect local people to the world.