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…

China aims to start work on a $5.2bn particle accelerator in 2027, reports Global Times. The facility, the world’s largest, will be a circular electron–positron collider (CEPC), and its primary…

Chinese energy engineering firm Wison New Energies will discontinue all ongoing Russian projects and will “stop taking any new Russian business”, the company said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.…

Official data shows that new-home prices in China fell at the fastest rate in nine years last month, Reuters reports. They dropped 0.7% in May from the previous month, Reuters…

The 33-storey Z6 tower in Beijing, designed by UK architect Foster + Partners, aims to become China’s first high-rise office building to achieve the “Net Zero Carbon Outstanding” certification. Located…

A Chinese company has connected the world’s biggest solar plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang, Reuters reports. The 3.5GW, 32,947-acre farm is in a desert area near the capital…

China wants to beautify its coastline by building more than 110 “beautiful bays” by 2027. Seven cities will also become “model zones” where their coastal areas can be classed as…

Hungary is planning to improve traffic flow in Budapest by constructing a Chinese-funded railway bypass and a motorway ring road, local media report.   The V0 railway was discussed during Chinese…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

Work began yesterday on a 16.2km tunnel between Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and the island of Zhoushan, China Daily reports.

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…