In my experience of Chinese road building in Africa, the surface will last just long enough for their trucks to get all the local timber/minerals out to the ports, then a couple of wet seasons will eat into the cracked surface and wash out the poorly laid substrata. Hey presto - back to dirt roads. Cynical, bitter, pessimistic? Yes, hands up to all of them:-)
My advice is wait a couple of years, get those knobblies on and ride safe,
Simon.
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