Building on support from foreign aid projects, the companies are remaking the economic and infrastructure landscape in the African nation, reports Yao Jing

After a journey of 80 kilometers on the smooth Addis Ababa-Adama Toll Motorway, 34 white wind turbine towers came into view.

Arrayed along the Great Rift Valley, they were spinning in the wind. It was early December, the dry season in Ethiopia, and the undulating grasslands had turned yellow. In the far distance lay Addis Ababa.