Chinese construction contractors flourish with the Belt and Road Initiative, but the quality of construction or capital is frequently questioned.

Chinese construction contractors have been emerging globally for more than a decade, thanks in part to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by President Xi Jinping.

In the first half of 2019, they signed US $ 87 billion contracts in BRI project areas.

Chinese contractors are currently involved in a wide range of projects, from traditional infrastructure construction to real estate, technology, education and healthcare, mostly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Despite the rapid growth in scale, many Chinese contractors are being doubted by the international public about the quality of construction and construction capacity.

In Cambodia, the Construction Quality Control Committee last mid-year expressed concern about construction safety in Preah Sihanouk province, when they ordered the demolition of 23 buildings, renovated 166 buildings and discovered 381 projects.

The move follows a 7-storey building collapse in Sihanoukville in June 2019 that killed 28 workers.

"Most of the construction owners are Chinese investors who don't understand the procedures for obtaining construction permits," the report noted.

"Some construction companies and contractors do not provide enough protective equipment for workers, while management capacity at the construction site is weak," the report said.

According to authorities, the building collapsed in June last year and was owned by Chinese investors and was built without a license.

In Africa, China is the largest man with the strongest potential in construction and infrastructure development.

Chinese contractors tend to offer bids that are 20% lower than their competitors thanks to benefits from Beijing's subsidies and special privileges in many African countries, where they are often exempt from certain rules.

However, according to commentator Andrew Alli from Quartz Africa, projects executed by Chinese contractors often face a series of criticisms related to the quality of works.

Last year, Kenya and Uganda, two countries in East Africa, unexpectedly fell into disorientation when Beijing stopped disbursing a $ 4.9 billion loan to build a railway line connecting the two countries.

China is now the largest donor of infrastructure construction loans in Africa.

Over the past two decades, Beijing has stepped up its global lending campaign, pouring into poor countries hundreds of billions of dollars in order to expand its influence and become an economic and political superpower.

Many international experts have called this a "debt trap strategy", when countries to borrow money from China for large-scale infrastructure projects had to "mortgage" with seaports and mineral mines.

Leading in China's debt lending campaign is BRI.

In the Middle East, representatives of Israeli construction companies and groups earlier this month filed with the Supreme Court accusing Chinese contractors and companies operating in the country of circumventing antitrust laws to

The Israeli Builders Association (IBA) petition argues that the government has ignored the fact that Chinese infrastructure construction companies operating in Israel are directly or indirectly owned by themselves.

"We had some bad experiences with Chinese companies," said Ian Khama, President of Botswana, in a 2013 interview. "Maybe you don't want to offend a great power, but leave a strong