News China’s Xinjiang highway will have a 16km ice tunnel 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…
News New technology aids 22-hour concrete pour on $7bn Shiziyang Bridge 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…
News Shanghai sets 29GW offshore wind target 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…
News China to invest $600m in Kazakhstan beef farming 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…
News World’s widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge opens in China 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…
News Huawei finishes $1.4bn Shanghai research centre, complete with 104 cafes 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,…
News Alstom inaugurates joint venture for Hefei’s metro expansion 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…
News China’s CSCEC to build $2bn new town near Riyadh 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…
News International consortium begins work on 22km EU-funded Serbian rail scheme 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…
News Tiffany & Co Shanghai branch contains “diamond” encrusted façade by MVRDV 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…
News China Road wins $2.5bn PPP deal to build Angola’s first motorway 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…
News China, Kazakhstan businesses agree deals worth $3.7bn 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…
News China rolls out world’s first carbon-fibre commuter train 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.…
News 10 Design’s Hangzhou mall and office tower opens for business 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…
News China to begin work on world’s largest particle accelerator in 2027 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…
News Chinese energy engineer pulls out of Russia 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.…
News China’s home prices tumble fastest in nine years 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…
News Foster’s tower set to be China’s first net-zero high-rise 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…