Guodong Group is planning to establish its Africa headquarters in Kenya as part of a Ksh38.8 billion programme linked to Konza. The plan points to more capital for towers, fibre, data centres, cloud infrastructure, smart cities, and green digital technologies.
Abubakar Hassan said Kenya is trying to position itself as a regional hub for digital infrastructure and pull in more foreign capital for the technology sector. He also said the BETA Agenda includes the Digital Superhighway and that Kenya is committed to laying about 100,000 Kilometres of fibre optic cable across the entire Country.
Kobe Hu meets Abubakar Hassan
Hassan hosted a delegation from Guodong Group led by Kobe Hu, who is the group’s senior partner and vice president. The meeting shows the plan has moved beyond a broad investment pitch and into direct talks with the State Department for Investment Promotion.
Guodong Group says its business spans communication infrastructure, new energy, and digital intelligent information technology. The group also says it works with telecommunications towers and digital infrastructure, which makes the Kenya pitch easier to map onto the country’s fibre and cloud buildout.
Guodong Group’s Kazakhstan move
In July 2026, Guodong Group announced a strategic cooperation agreement in Kazakhstan to invest in and build communication infrastructure along major railways and highways. That earlier deal suggests the company is already pursuing infrastructure work tied to transport corridors rather than isolated projects.
The hard gap is the same one investors will care about here. Guodong Group has not disclosed which projects in Kenya would receive the Ksh38.8 billion, so the practical test is whether the money lands first in fibre, towers, data centres, or another part of the digital stack.
The headquarters plan also has no timeline, which leaves the Kenya move as a strategic commitment rather than an operating date. Until Guodong Group names the projects and the sequence, Konza and the wider digital buildout have a funding promise, not a delivery schedule.
