News China starts work on $4.3bn offshore airport Work has started on a $4.3bn international airport off the coast of Dalian, a port city in Liaoning Province, northern China, Xinhua reports.
News Chinese firms eye $6bn worth of projects in Nigeria Nigeria’s science and infrastructure agency says it has reached non-binding agreements with Chinese companies covering projects in Nigeria worth a combined $6bn. The agreements came out of talks held during…
News UNStudio designs multi-tower complex at Hangzhou Olympic site Dutch architect UNStudio has designed the four-tower, mixed-use Hiwell Amber Centre in Hangzhou, southeast China. The complex contains two residential towers, an office tower, and a tower containing a hotel…
News Chinese machinery group to ‘generate $5bn investment’ in Mexico Chinese construction machinery group Lingong Machinery (LGMG) plans to build an industrial hub in the northeast Mexican state of Nuevo León that it says will generate $5bn in investment. Mexico…
News China considers extra $137bn infrastructure spend to boost growth China is mulling raising its infrastructure spending by a trillion yuan, or $137bn, to accelerate the economy’s recovery from its long period of covid restrictions, Bloomberg reports. The money would…
News First concrete poured at China’s $18bn Lianjiang nuclear site Work has begun on unit one of the $18bn Lianjiang nuclear power plant in southeast China’s Guangdong province. The announcement was made on Sunday by its owner, the State Power…
News Unoccupied Shenzhen tower transformed into women and children’s centre Construction has been completed on Shenzhen’s Women & Children’s Centre, a previously unoccupied 100m-tall tower that has been transformed into a colourful skyscraper by Dutch architect MVRDV. Originally opened in…
News Kenya to request $1bn Chinese loan to finish stalled road projects President Ruto of Kenya is to use his visit to Beijing later this month to ask China for a $1bn loan to restart work on stalled road projects. He will…
News China to spend $14 trillion on green power transformation China is planning to invest around $13.7 trillion in its electricity sector between 2020 and 2060, reports the Xinhua news agency. Quoting a State Grid Corporation book, Xinhua said the…
News China to build electrical engineering centre in Addis Ababa The Civil Engineering Construction Corporation of China (CCECC) has agreed to build a “centre of excellence” in Addis Ababa to help train Ethiopian electrical engineers. The facility would be for…
News China rejected Pakistan projects over political instability fears, report says China has rejected requests by Pakistan to add more projects to the wide-ranging China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) scheme, newspaper Nikkei Asia reports today, citing two officials who saw the minutes…
News Zaha Hadid Architects design Chinese Harbourside district UK designer Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its plans for a 409,000 sq m harbourside cultural district for the city of Sanya on the southern tip of China’s Hainan island.…
News China launches sea-skimming Fujian railway, eyes future Taiwan link China has opened a 277km-long, high-speed coastal railway that saves land space by crossing ocean bays in the province of Fujian near the Taiwan Strait, Xinhua reports.
News Russia, China agree $690m facility to boost oil and gas trade Russian and Chinese companies have agreed a deal to invest $686m in a Siberian oil transhipment complex, the Reuters news agency reports.
News Russia, China to build grain corridor with $160m border logistics hub China and Russia have agreed to invest in a “land grain corridor” to improve trade between the two countries, the South China Morning Post reports.
News Workers arrested after hole punched through Great Wall of China Two construction workers were arrested by police in China after they used a mechanical digger to create a shortcut through the Great Wall. According to the BBC, a 38-year-old man…
News China to spend $620m on electron-positron particle accelerator China is planning to spend $620m building a particle accelerator that will try to answer fundamental puzzles in basic physics, such as how quarks interact to form protons and neutrons,…
News Shanghai Disney to get third hotel Shanghai Disney has begun construction on the resort’s as yet unnamed third hotel, a 400-room development inspired by the city’s early-20th Century art nouveaux architecture. It will meet the site’s…