News Construction begins on Asia’s largest hangar Work has begun on three airplane hangars in Shanghai that measure a total of 110,000 sq m, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The largest of the trio will…
News Chinese firms win $560m in works for Kuwait’s South Sabah city Kuwait’s Public Authority for Housing Welfare has picked two Chinese companies to build supporting infrastructure for a Foster + Partners’ planned new city 80km south of the capital. The work…
News China Communications only bidder for deep-water port in Georgia The job of building a deep-water port in the Caucasus state of Georgia has gone to the project’s only bidder, China Communications and its China Harbour Investment subsidiary. Levan Davitashvili,…
News China agrees to finance Russia’s first Pacific gas terminal China will help pay for Russia’s first liquified petroleum gas (LPG) terminal on its Pacific coast, shipping news site Marine Link reports. The aim is to complete a project that…
News Chinese engineers test world’s first boring-and-blasting machine Engineers at Tsinghua University in Beijing and China Railway Science and Industry Group have developed a prototype tunnel boring machine (TBM) that also blasts rock. The unit has passed tunnelling…
News China starts building a 1,800-hectare offshore solar farm China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) started building China’s biggest offshore solar farm on Sunday at Haibin harbour in Lianyungang city in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, Global Times reports. Costing $1.39bn,…
News China’s new undersea rail tunnel to meet in the middle Work began yesterday on a 16.2km tunnel between Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and the island of Zhoushan, China Daily reports.
News China, Hungary agree rail schemes and ‘full-spectrum’ nuclear cooperation President Xi Jinping’s visit to Hungary last week resulted in commitments to cooperate on rail, nuclear, and other infrastructure, Reuters reports. Hungary’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook that…
News Tesla’s Shanghai ‘Megapack’ factory gets greenlight Tesla’s plan to build a power-grid battery factory in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone has received planning approval, reports news site China.org. Tesla’s first energy storage plant outside the US,…
News China hands running of Ethiopia-Djibouti railway to locals Six years after it entered service, officials from Ethiopia and Djibouti have taken over the management of the China-funded 752km railway Addis Ababa to Djibouti’s port on the Indian Ocean.…
News Thailand touts $27bn ‘land bridge’ plan to Chinese business Thailand’s transport minister has been in Beijing promoting plans for a $27bn land bridge to investors, The Nation newspaper reports. The idea is to build a pair of deepwater ports…
News $8bn China-Kyrgyzstan railway ‘to start in October’ Work on a 523km railway between western China and Uzbekistan through Kyrgyzstan will start in October, Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov said in a speech this week, reports The Diplomat, citing…
News MAD Architects designs Chinese sports centre in the form of a ‘luminous cloud’ China’s MAD Architects has unveiled its design for the Cloud 9 Sports Centre, a mirror-clad development surrounded by parkland in the central business district of Shijiazhuang, capital of northeast China’s…
Perspectives Too big to stand: Why China’s property sector was riding for a fall Academics at Michigan University argue that China’s property-sector woes may have causes beyond the overambition of developers and the government’s actions to limit the ballooning debt in the sector. Led…
News Eyes on Xi Jinping’s Hungarian visit for possible EV plant Chinese car maker Great Wall Motors plans to build a big electric vehicle plant in Hungary, media there have been speculating. They believe it will time the announcement to coincide…
News Serbian leg of Belgrade-to-Budapest railway to open this year Contractors have finished laying track on the remaining Serbian section of the new, China-backed north-south railway between the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and Budapest, capital of Hungary. Costing $1bn, the 108km…
News ‘Eight Intelligent Systems’ used on China’s deepest rail tunnel China Railway Tunnel Group (CRTG) says it used “Eight Intelligent Systems” to build China’s deepest and highest-water-pressure tunnel under the Pearl (Zhujiang) River Estuary.
News China’s cities are sinking, study says Millions of people living in Chinese cities face rapid subsidence, according to a major new study. Dozens of researchers led by Ao Zurui of South China Normal University used a…
