The Republic of Kenya is located in eastern Africa, with the equator running through the center and the Great Rift Valley running north and south. It is adjacent to Somalia in the east, Tanzania in the south, Uganda in the west, Ethiopia and South Sudan in the north, and the Indian Ocean in the southeast, with a coastline of 536 kilometers. 18% of the land area is arable, the rest is mainly suitable for animal husbandry.
Kenya is a potential market, the Kenyan government in the Vision 2030 plan, energy, infrastructure and construction, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, tourism, wholesale and retail, financial services and information industries as key areas of development.
In recent years, African countries have actively responded to China's "Belt and Road" initiative, and the Republic of Kenya, as an "important fulcrum" of the Belt and Road strategy in Africa, has maintained friendly exchanges with China. Relying on the cross-border e-commerce platform of Jilin Manufacturing, the initial intention of the Republic of Kenya to tender and purchase mining machinery, Kenya's mineral deposits are mainly soda ash, salt, fluorite, limestone, barite, gold, silver, copper, aluminum, zinc, niobium and thorium, in addition to soda ash and fluorite, most of the mineral deposits have not been developed. The main minerals are barite in the southeast near Tamota, niobium in the Mrima Mountains, and gold in Kakamega and Makarje in the southwest. Gilgil is one of the largest diatomaceous earth mines in the world, and Lake Magadi is rich in trona and salt.