Two Chinese contractors have started building major roads in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a $7bn deal that swaps infrastructure for a share in the country’s copper…

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics says China will build the world’s first large-scale molten-salt-cooled thorium reactor in the Gobi Desert next year, reports the South China Morning Post. China’s…

Russia and China are planning five missions to the Moon to place modules on its surface and in orbit around it, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reports, citing a statement by…

Construction has begun on the first of two new reactors, numbers 5 and 6, at the Ningde Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian Province, news website CGTN reports. The first concrete…

Chinese contractors will drill a 16km-long tunnel through a 2.4km-deep layer of glacial ice to build a major road in the far western autonomous region of Xinjiang. The West Tianshan…

Chinese equipment maker Sany says it has made a technical breakthrough in its work on the Shiziyang road bridge over the Pearl River delta in Guangdong. The $7bn crossing will…

The Chinese government has approved a plan put forward by the People’s Municipal Government of Shanghai to build more than 29GW of offshore wind capacity. The plan, reported in the…

Chinese companies plan to invest around $600m building a meat farming hub in Kazakhstan, Azernews reports. Kazakhstan’s agriculture minister Aidarbek Saparov reached the agreement with executives from Chinese companies CITIC…

The Fengyi Bridge in Shaanxi Province in central China has opened for traffic. UK consultant Arup, which designed and engineered the span, said it’s the widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge in…

Chinese tech company Huawei has completed work on its $1.4bn research and development hub near Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reports. Begun in 2020, the campus covers about 160ha,…

French rail engineer Alstom has inaugurated a joint venture in Anhui Province, near Shanghai, where it will build a factory and offer project management and maintenance services. Hefei Alstom Rail…

The Diriyah Company in Saudi Arabia has picked China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) to build a $2bn, 14-sq-km urban quarter on the western outskirts of Riyadh. Diriyah is developing…

Construction has begun on a 22km-long bypass of the southern Serbian city of Nis. The project is being carried out by a consortium made up of Serbia’s Extra Auto Transport…

Dutch architect MVRDV has designed a façade for a Tiffany shop in a Shanghai retail development bejeweled by 6,988 handcrafted glass “diamonds”. The shop is located in Taikoo-Li Qiantan retail…

China Road and Bridge (CRBC) has been chosen to build Angola’s first motorway: a 1,400km-long project that will link the north and south of the country, local media reports. Carlos…

Businesses attending yesterday’s Kazakh–Chinese Business Council meeting in Astana signed some 40 deals worth a total of $3.7bn, news agency Kazinform reports. The event attracted around 500 representatives, including more…

A Chinese train maker has unveiled a prototype metro train made from carbon fibre that it says is 11% lighter, making it more energy efficient and less hard-wearing on tracks.…

Work has finished on an office tower and shopping mall designed by China-based architect 10 Design for state-owned developer China Resources Land in Hangzhou, a city of 10.4 million people…