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…

A joint venture between France’s Manitou Group and China’s Hangcha Group will build a lithium-ion battery factory in Le Mans, northern France. They say it will let users upgrade their…

Construction has begun on the world’s largest hydropower dam, a $167bn Chinese project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, according to state news agency Xinhua. Five cascade hydropower stations will produce…

UK architect Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 3.2-sq-km area masterplan in northern Shanghai’s Putuo district. The project is based around Shanghai West Railway Station and…

A group of state and private sector partners in China launched a project to build an offshore wind-powered data centre under the sea off Shanghai on Tuesday. The idea is…

Egypt’s Arab Contractors has teamed up with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) to jointly bid for work in Egypt and the rest of Africa. Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Madbouly…

A Singaporean builder has been fined just under S$4.3m (US$3.3m) for colluding with a Chinese firm to rig bids for community-centre projects worth some S$56m in the city state. The…

Vietnam is still in talks with Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom about building nuclear power plants in Vietnam, the two countries said in a joint statement reported by Reuters. The parties…