News China halts floating nuclear power plan over security fears 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…
Trends China’s “City of the Future” will have one big brain 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…
News China’s 18th Bureau wins technically ambitious $1bn Dubai tower 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…
News China begins work on $14bn Chongqing reservoir 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…
News Chinese finance moves into Central Asia as Russian, American influence recedes 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…
News MVRDV to turn former Chinese oil refinery into energy-neutral, mixed-use district 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…
News Chinese investors discuss construction of 1GW solar power plant in Kyrgyzstan 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,…
Trends Chinese battery maker joins surge of investors in Hungary’s EV industry Chinese battery manufacturer Eve Power will build a €3.7bn factory in Debrecen, Hungary, boosting the country’s role as the centre of the European electric vehicle (EV) industry. Hungarian foreign minister…
News China Railways fixed asset investment rose 6.3% in the year to May Data from China Railways, the country’s national rail operator, shows that fixed-asset investment in the first four months of the year was $24bn, a 6.3% rise on the same period…
News China’s all-important Hualong reactor passes final test The first two units of China’s Hualong One reactor design passed their final acceptance test, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced this week. The country’s future nuclear plans are based…
News China’s 5km undersea tunnel opens to traffic The 5.1km Dalian Bay Undersea Tunnel across the mouth of Bohai Bay in northern China opened to traffic this week, China Daily reports. The tunnel in Liaoning province consists of…
News China’s railway to the Arabian Sea would be worth the $58bn, study finds A 3,000km railway from China’s Xinjiang autonomous region to the Pakistani port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea would cost $58bn, but a feasibility study says it would be worth…
News China plans Shanghai hyperloop “by 2035” China has become the first country to set out a construction programme for a hyperloop, the vacuum-tube maglev system that would theoretically allow trains to travel at up to 1,000…
News Chinese national arrested on blasphemy charges at Pakistani hydro project A Chinese construction supervisor at the Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan has been arrested on blasphemy charges after a crowd assembled to protest over alleged remarks he made that workers…
News China funds major social housing scheme in Nicaragua Work got under way on Sunday on a massive China-financed public housing scheme in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, Global Times reports. The project is being built by China State…
Trends The Great Bail Out: How China is propping up its Belt-and-Road debtors China has has dramatically expanded rescue lending to countries that borrowed money from it for Belt-and-Road infrastructure schemes, a new study finds. By the end of 2021, China had undertaken…
News India launches $600m “Vibrant Villages” programme along Chinese border The government of India has launched its $600m “Vibrant Villages” programme to develop homes and roads in Himalayan states, India Express reports. This scheme, which was announced in the 2022…
News Chinese regions set to increase construction spending by $1.8 trillion in 2023 Almost all of China’s provincial governments that have announced their budgets intend to increase spending on large construction and infrastructure projects this year. According to analysis by news agency Bloomberg,…