The eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu will let construction workers work beyond the state mandated retirement age of 60 for men and up to 55 for women as the workforce…

Chinese engineers this week used a smart machine to replace a section of railway bridge in four hours, the South China Morning Post reports. China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) said…

Work has finished on a 250,000-sq-m extension to Xiamen North Railway Station, which is to be a terminus of China’s latest high-speed rail line. When it opens to the public…

Construction has begun on the 154,700-sq-m Chengdu Jiaozi Courtyard Towers, occupying the last empty site of the city’s Jiaozi Park Financial and Business District. Comprising three office towers measuring 80m,…

A two-day trade and investment conference has been held in Riyadh to boost business between Saudi Arabia and China. As news site Zawya reports, this has led to more than…

A subsidiary of China Railway Group has won a contract to build the headquarters of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in Tanzania, the East African newspaper reports.…

UK architect Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its design for the West Bund Orbit exhibition hall on the Huangpu riverside in Shanghai, which will have open, ribbon-like staircase façade and a…

Construction began this week on the Cambodian side of a tolled motorway that will eventually link Phnom Penh with Ho Chi Minh City, China’s People’s Daily reports.   The Cambodian…

The government of Argentina has been holding talks with a Chinese company to invest in the country’s rail network. Transport minister Diego Giuliano held talks last week with the China…

The Tanzanian government is planning to build a 50km bridge – the longest in Africa – between Dar es Salaam and the island of Zanzibar, Construct Africa reports. Geofrey Kasekenya,…

Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with a Chinese electromotive group that wants to invest $6.4bn in a battery-making complex, website Utilities reports.  Gotion High-Tech, based in Hefei, specialises…

China’s plan to build a fleet of nuclear power reactors that would provide electrical power to islands on the South China Sea have been suspended over security concerns, the South…

China’s city of the future, the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei Province, has been fitted with a $156m Urban Computing Centre that will act as its brain, storing a digital…

Dubai’s Al Habtoor Group has picked China Railway 18th Bureau to build a $1bn tower in the emirate, saying the contractor stood the best chance of finishing the job in…

Work began on Saturday to construct a reservoir in central China’s Chongqing metropolitan region, website CGTN reports. The Zaodu Reservoir project, which is expected to cost $14bn, will benefit more…

Chinese President Xi Jinping today unveiled China’s plan to boost economic development in five central Asian states with the help of additional loans worth $3.8bn, Reuters reports. Xi made his…

Dutch architect MVRDV it to reconfigure a former oil refinery as an urban quarter for the southeastern city of Hangzhou. The plan is to make the 18ha Hangzhou Oil Refinery…

The government of Kyrgyzstan has held talks with Chinese contractors over the construction of a 1GW solar farm in the Central Asian country, news agency AKI Press reports.  Akylbek Japarov,…