Construction has begun on Guangzhou New Airport, the first phase of which will include a 260,000-sq-m terminal, two parallel runways and 94 aircraft stands. The development is located in Gaoming,…

Lishui Airport in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province and designed by MAD Architects, has opened to the public following a 17-year design and construction phase. The 12,000-sq-m terminal building is designed…

A team comprising China’s C.Y. Lee & Partners and UK-headquartered Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has won a design competition for the 47-floor National Innovation, Creativity and Finance Center (NICFC) in…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled its design for a cultural district in the Qiantang Bay Central Water Axis in the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou, a renovated former industrial area.…

Construction has begun on the 110,000-sq-m Beijing Art Museum in the capital’s Tongzhou District, designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD). Beijing Art Museum…

Parts needed to assemble central Africa’s first-ever modular office building in Cameroon have been dispatched from China and are due to arrive for assembly in March 2026. The “Office Building…

China’s government said on 31 December December 31st that it will spend $42bn on transportation, water and energy projects in its latest five-year plan. The money will go towards building…

A $4.7bn financing package drawn largely from China has been announced for the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, Kyrgyzstan state media reports. The railway will be developed by a joint venture set up…

After talks lasting more than a year, China last week signed a $1.4bn agreement with Zambia and Tanzania to get the famous “Tazara” railway, which it built in the 1970s, up and running properly again.

The European Commission has launched an investigation under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation to determine if a Portuguese subsidiary of Chinese state-owned rolling stock manufacturer CRRC had an unfair advantage when…

Part of a 758m-long bridge completed this year over a steep gorge in western China’s Sichuan Province collapsed in a landslide yesterday. The Hongqi Bridge in Maerkang city carries National…

Firm also warns of skills shortage, saying its own AI projects will need 20% of the country’s skilled tradespeople over the next five years. OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT…

Construction of the 165,815-sq-m Yidan Center, containing areas for academic research, cultural events and exhibitions in Shenzhen, has topped out. The building’s design by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is inspired…

China Railway 18th Bureau Group, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation, has been awarded a contract worth around $272m (AED1bn) to build twin residential towers in…

Speculative residential construction in China may have collapsed, but ongoing investment in infrastructure, renewables and megaprojects still make the country a global construction powerhouse, according to a forecast by market intelligence firm, GlobalData.

Once home to Asia’s biggest cement factory, an awkward waterfront industrial zone in Shanghai is now a stylish culture and leisure district that uses the site’s old, monolithic structures to…

A huge inflatable dome has been erected over an entire construction site in Jinan, capital of Shandong province in east China. Officials say it allows for all-weather construction and expanded…

The government of Hong Kong has picked a joint venture of Aecom and AtkinsRéalis to build the Hong Kong section of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Rail Link. The JV will…