Construction has been completed on Shenzhen’s Women & Children’s Centre, a previously unoccupied 100m-tall tower that has been transformed into a colourful skyscraper by Dutch architect MVRDV. Originally opened in…

President Ruto of Kenya is to use his visit to Beijing later this month to ask China for a $1bn loan to restart work on stalled road projects. He will…

China is planning to invest around $13.7 trillion in its electricity sector between 2020 and 2060, reports the Xinhua news agency. Quoting a State Grid Corporation book, Xinhua said the…

The Civil Engineering Construction Corporation of China (CCECC) has agreed to build a “centre of excellence” in Addis Ababa to help train Ethiopian electrical engineers. The facility would be for…

China has rejected requests by Pakistan to add more projects to the wide-ranging China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) scheme, newspaper Nikkei Asia reports today, citing two officials who saw the minutes…

UK designer Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its plans for a 409,000 sq m harbourside cultural district for the city of Sanya on the southern tip of China’s Hainan island.…

China has opened a 277km-long, high-speed coastal railway that saves land space by crossing ocean bays in the province of Fujian near the Taiwan Strait, Xinhua reports.

Russian and Chinese companies have agreed a deal to invest $686m in a Siberian oil transhipment complex, the Reuters news agency reports.

China and Russia have agreed to invest in a “land grain corridor” to improve trade between the two countries, the South China Morning Post reports.

Two construction workers were arrested by police in China after they used a mechanical digger to create a shortcut through the Great Wall. According to the BBC, a 38-year-old man…

China is planning to spend $620m building a particle accelerator that will try to answer fundamental puzzles in basic physics, such as how quarks interact to form protons and neutrons,…

Shanghai Disney has begun construction on the resort’s as yet unnamed third hotel, a 400-room development inspired by the city’s early-20th Century art nouveaux architecture. It will meet the site’s…

Progress on the 253km high-speed railway between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima, the first phase of the link between Thailand and China, is expected to be in operation in 2027. The…

Chinese rail equipment maker CRRC has won a contract to build electric trainsets for Chilean State Railways (EFE). CRRC, in a consortium with local rail services company Temoinsa, will supply…

China has offered to build a nuclear power station in Saudi Arabia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The plan, according to Saudi officials familiar with the matter, is…

The 295m-long Chengdu West First Bridge has been completed. It crosses the Jiangxi River, a tributary of the Tuojiang River in China’s Sichuan province. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA),…

A report this month highlights China’s newly dominant role in Africa won through infrastructure investment.

Construction has begun on a 597-unit residential project in Kuwait’s southern Ahmadi Governorate. The work is being carried out by China Railway Group and the Power Construction Corporation, better known…