News Kazakhstan starts building third railway to China Kazakhstan has broken ground on its third rail link with China. The 272km line will connect the eastern city of Ayagoz to the town of Bakhty on the border with…
News China approves four reactors with six more to come this year China’s State Council has given the green light for work to begin on two Hualong One reactors at the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong, and two more at the…
News China’s first fast train service to Vietnam opens The first medium-speed rail link to China’s border with Vietnam entered service last week, cutting travel time between two coastal cities from an hour to 19 minutes, according to the…
News The world’s heaviest wheeled crane makes its debut at wind farm site in China The world’s heaviest wheeled crane has completed its first lift at a wind farm in Yingkou, in China’s south–central Liaoning Province. The XCA3000, which is made by state-owned company XCMG,…
News China starts building huge underground oil store China’s national oil company has begun turning underground caverns into an oil storage facility able to hold 3 million cubic metres of crude oil in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. China National…
News Chinese firm to invest $150m in Nigerian battery factory China and Nigeria agreed to build an EV battery factory in the African country at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Photovoltaics specialist Shenzhen LEMI Technology Development Company will invest…
News China turns on world’s first fourth-generation reactor The world’s first commercial, fourth-generation reactor has entered service at the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant in northeast China.
News China, Vietnam eye upgrade to colonial rail link China and Vietnam are in talks about modernising the 855km colonial-era railway between Kunming in southern China’s Yunnan Province and Vietnam’s port city of Haiphong. The two sides are preparing…
News ZHA-designed art centre is inaugurated in Guangdong Zaha Hadid Architects’ 100,000 sq m art centre has been completed in Guangdong’s Aviation New City in southeast China. The Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre includes a 1,200-seat theatre, a…
News China State Construction picked to build $1.2bn Dubai resort Dubai developer Wasl Asset Management has chosen China State Construction Engineering Corporation to build “The Island”, a 10.5ha resort on reclaimed land off the coast of Jumeirah beach, MEED reports.…
News EU probes dumping complaints against Chinese equipment makers The European Commission has launched a probe into allegations of “dumping” by Chinese manufacturers of mobile access equipment onto the European market. It follows a complaint lodged on 29 September…
News Chinese property group files $1.38bn lawsuit over contaminated land Confidence in China’s embattled property sector took another hit this month when a major Shanghai developer revealed it had filed a $1.38bn lawsuit against a steel company accusing it of…
News Stellantis in talks to build battery mega factory with China’s CATL Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and Dutch-based car maker Stellantis Group signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday outlining plans to form an alliance. It sees CATL supplying…
News China Harbour to help turn Libyan city into “gateway to Africa” Beijing-based China Harbour Engineering, a subsidiary of China Communications, has signed an agreement in principle to build infrastructure in the Misurata Free Zone (MFZ) in Libya. Located on the coast…
News Heatherwick Studio unveils ‘nesting tables’ mixed-used district for Chinese city UK architect Heatherwick Studio has designed a mixed-use district for Xi’an, a city of 12 million people in Shaanxi Province, central China. The 115,000 sq m project will contain shops,…
News Kazakhstan to build rail bypass for Almaty as China-Europe traffic surges Kazakhstan Railway (Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, or KTZ) began work this week on a rail bypass around the commercial capital of Almaty. It will run between the towns of Zhetygen and…
News Architect’s mind-bending bookshop opens in China Shanghai architect X+Living has published images of its newly completed bookstore in the city of Huai’an in Jiangsu Province. The architect describes its design for the Zhongshuge chain as “tearing…
News China puts measures in place to curb public–private partnerships China has taken steps to restrict the number of public–private partnerships (PPPs) entered into by local government bodies, citing their role in rising debt. Sources familiar with the matter told…