“铜带”赞比亚北部与扎伊尔毗邻的地方,有一长220多公里、宽65公里的带状地区,埋藏着丰富的铜矿,非洲人称之为”铜带”。赞比亚独立后,将它划称铜带省。铜带省蕴藏的铜约9亿吨,占资本主义世界总储量的四分之一和世界总储量15%左右。赞比亚历来被称为“铜矿之国”,也有人打趣说,“赞比亚人生下来,嘴里就含着铜!” The area adjacent to Zaire in northern Zambia has a strip of more than 220 km and a width of 65 km. It is rich in copper deposits, which Africans call “copper belts.” After its independence, Zambia classified it as Copper Belt Province. Copperbelt province contains about 900 million tons of copper, accounting for a quarter of the total capitalist world reserves and the world’s total reserves of about 15%. Zambia has always been called “the country of copper,” and some people joked that “Zambians are born with copper in their mouths!”