China’s investment in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) held steady at $68bn last year, according to a report by Shanghai’s Fudan University, but it has changed where it’s spending…

China’s state news agency, Xinhua, has reported that the autonomous Xinjiang region in the country’s northwest, will invest $12.3bn in road construction in 2023. The money will be split between…

Some 40 construction projects with a total value of $6.2bn were begun in China’s Xiong’an New Area in Hebei province on Saturday, China Daily reports. The Xiong’an sustainable smart city,…

Some $60m is required to repair 23 of 40 trains operating on Addis Ababa’s Chinese-built light rail system, a city transport official told Ethiopian news site The Reporter. Mitku Asmare,…

Chinese conglomerate Gezhouba Group has offered to invest $10bn in infrastructure projects in the Autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, news site Zawya reports.  Mohammed Shukri, chairman of the Kurdistan…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled its futuristic design for a science fiction museum now being built in Chengdu, China, conceived by the architect as an asymmetrical star that floats…

The State Grid Corporation of China plans to invest a record $77bn in transmission infrastructure and energy storage systems in 2023, a 4% increase on the previous year and the…

India and China are competing to build rail connections – and influence – in the Himalayan state of Nepal, with India somewhat ahead in the race, according to a report…

Uganda has cancelled a deal with a Chinese contractor to build a $2.3bn railway after Beijing decided not to fund the scheme, Bloomberg reports. Perez Wamburu, Uganda’s project coordinator, told…

Dutch architect MVRDV alongside local design parter UAD has won a design competition for a library in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The 14ha Wuhan Central Library is distinguished by…

China has begun work on an $11.5bn renewables project in Inner Mongolia that will eventually generate 16GW of energy, the Xinhua news agency reports.  The project, located in the Kubuqi…

Thai energy company Bangchak Corporation (BCPG) will join forces with PowerChina International to build a $1.5bn wind farm in Laos. The two companies yesterday signed an agreement to cooperate on…

Work started yesterday on a new headquarters for the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, funded by a Chinese grant. Ecowas president Omar…

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has been hired to build Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, which is being developed by CMA Terminals (70%) and AD Ports Group (30%). CHEC will…

China’s Moon base, to be built at the satellite’s south pole by 2028, could be powered by nuclear energy, reports South China Morning Post.  The project was revealed by Wu…

International design and engineering group Aurecon has appointed Frank Nelisi as digital practice leader for China, along with three other digital construction specialists to meet an expected rise in demand…

Australian architect Aspect Studio has designed a 30,000-person campus for Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba in Hangzhou, the capital of China’s eastern Zhejiang province. Aspect Studio’s Shanghai office has created the…

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Beijing will invest in major projects in Cambodia including a $1.6bn expressway from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border and the upgrading of a railway…