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China’s resilient transportation.

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Resilience- Resilience is defined as the ability of an individual, household, community, a country or a region to withstand ,adopt and quickly recover from the stresses and shocks caused by the natural disasters. An important strategy is to increase overall resilience is to improve the resilience of the transport system. For example, if there is disruption on the train service on a particular routes, other alternative service such as public buses, electric cars should be available to balance out/compensate the demand. Also the ability to fixing up the railways as fast as possible to restore the railways also counts for resilience. The most resilient systems are seamlessly connected to one another — offering maximum mobility at every scale, and for every mile of the journey. China has one of the finest resilient transportation compared to other countries. China understood that transportation is the backbone of the economic development and has made tremendous efforts to improv...

India Nigeria relations

Modi led government have been taking steps to maintain stable and economic relations with the nations in the African Continent. Recently Indian government announced that it would help Nigeria’s economic recovery and growth plan to build competitive economy. Indian commissioner said that India offered about $174.96million to boost power supply in Nigeria. One of the factors influenced this decision was the trade balance between Nigeria and India. India exports to Nigeria stands at $1.74billion as against India’s imports of $7.41bn from Nigeria. Indian government plans to construct solar plants in six geo-political zones of Nigeria. Also Indian government stated that it support the economic plan of Nigeria predominant focus on promoting agriculture and other allied sectors. Trade basket between India and Nigeria   are significantly improved and diversified due to large number of Indian owned companies have set up their offices in Nigeria. These companies are one of the larg...