News Chicago architect wins Chinese regeneration scheme Chicago architect Goettsch Partners (GP) has won a competition to design a 111,500-sq-m urban renewal project in Jinan, capital of the province of Shandong in northeast China. The mixed-use scheme…
News Hanoi brings in Chinese contractor to consult on $2.7bn metro line Hanoi’s municipal transport department has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the China Pacific Construction Group (CPCG) and the Vietnam Construction Import–Export Corporation on Thursday. According to Vietnamese website The Investor, the…
News China to spend $70bn revamping grid to take renewables The company that manages China’s electricity grid says it will invest more than $70bn in its network this year to improve long-distance transmission and accommodate more intermittent renewable generators. State…
News MVRDV designs 150m tower for Sichuan software park Dutch architect MVRDV has won a competition to design two buildings for Tianfu Software Park in Chengdu, central China. One is a 150m-tall office tower that will be the centrepiece…
News First three buildings completed for financial district of Egypt’s new capital China State Construction Engineering Company (CSCEC) yesterday handed over the first three buildings of the $3bn central business district of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, local news sites reported. Prime Minister…
News iPhone screen-maker to build $9bn factory in Chengdu Beijing-based electronics group BOE Technology, the largest supplier of screens for the iPhone 15, will invest $9bn in a factory complex in central China. According to the South China Morning…
News 10 Design unveils world’s largest indoor ski slope Hong Kong-based architect 10 Design has published images of its design for the Huafa Snow World, a 131ha leisure and shopping destination set to open in Shenzhen, China in 2025.…
News Chinese wave: MAD unveils watery design for Guangdong cultural complex Beijing-based architect MAD has unveiled its design for the Nanhai Arts Centre in the City of Foshan in the greater Guangdong area of southeast China. The 120,000-sq-m complex will include…
News China to spend $11bn on Tibetan infrastructure this year The Chinese government is to spend $11.3bn on infrastructure in Tibet’s western Xizang Autonomous Region this year, Xinhua reports. The investment, equal to more than a third of the region’s…
News Kazakhstan starts building third railway to China Kazakhstan has broken ground on its third rail link with China. The 272km line will connect the eastern city of Ayagoz to the town of Bakhty on the border with…
News China approves four reactors with six more to come this year China’s State Council has given the green light for work to begin on two Hualong One reactors at the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong, and two more at the…
News China’s first fast train service to Vietnam opens The first medium-speed rail link to China’s border with Vietnam entered service last week, cutting travel time between two coastal cities from an hour to 19 minutes, according to the…
News The world’s heaviest wheeled crane makes its debut at wind farm site in China The world’s heaviest wheeled crane has completed its first lift at a wind farm in Yingkou, in China’s south–central Liaoning Province. The XCA3000, which is made by state-owned company XCMG,…
News China starts building huge underground oil store China’s national oil company has begun turning underground caverns into an oil storage facility able to hold 3 million cubic metres of crude oil in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. China National…
News Chinese firm to invest $150m in Nigerian battery factory China and Nigeria agreed to build an EV battery factory in the African country at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Photovoltaics specialist Shenzhen LEMI Technology Development Company will invest…
News China turns on world’s first fourth-generation reactor The world’s first commercial, fourth-generation reactor has entered service at the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant in northeast China.
News China, Vietnam eye upgrade to colonial rail link China and Vietnam are in talks about modernising the 855km colonial-era railway between Kunming in southern China’s Yunnan Province and Vietnam’s port city of Haiphong. The two sides are preparing…
News ZHA-designed art centre is inaugurated in Guangdong Zaha Hadid Architects’ 100,000 sq m art centre has been completed in Guangdong’s Aviation New City in southeast China. The Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre includes a 1,200-seat theatre, a…