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That is actually frequently the case in "further developed" developing countries that can adquately fill these roles.
In small and "lesser developed" countries Chinese developers often must bring even all their basic machinery for large scale projects and you suddenly want 150-200 positions filled by locals to manage other locals, when Chinese developers and investors already take on the bulk of the financial risks on while including large amounts of locals into the projects already contrary to the popular narrative. I coud talk on about how hard it would be to convince a profit oriented company to create risks of holes in the management chain. Its also not just a matter of can it even be done, but can it be done economically. Its not like Chinese developers are dumb and wont grasp such a transparent opportunity if it existed. But thats why China is usually there in first place. Yes train them nurture them foster them easy to say and guess what China has been doing all this time in one country after another? The entire long term strategic point of BRI is to create the basis of that from scratch. And it called long term for a reason.
But I dont really see how switching out some frontman could really prevent these kind of incidents or would positively affect the bigger picture that is drawn like here once again from the outside about Chinese relations with other countries (and inadvertedly influences these relations on the inside but thats another issue) anyways.
Look at how it's done in Pakistan then. Chinese power plant engineers here do not interact directly with labourers, there's absolutely no need to.
Whereas the one incident in a tyre plant with labourers was due to rigid management and not understanding the culture.
You guys will learn but this is the world of 5G wars so buckle up and learn faster on that front too instead of just focusing on construction speed.