At a breakfast table in the noisy restaurant of a hotel in Shenzhen, I met Kwame Song Dongshong, now President of the Powerchina International Group Limited. The company that built the iconic Three Gorges in China, is a behemoth by its own description in `planning, survey, design, engineering, through finance, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of power and infrastructure projects`. If you want a zen explanation, they claim that their philosophy is `harmony among human beings and harmony with nature.` In his previous life, when he emerged for the first time in Ghana, Song was merely the Executive Vice President of a company that as per the Fortune Global 500 ranking list...
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