Police in the northeast Chinese city of Qiqihar have arrested the management team of a construction company suspected of illegally storing building materials on the roof of the school gymnasium…

Hong Kong-based architect 10 Design has won a competition to design an ideal 74,000-sq-m primary school in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, just south of Shanghai. 10 Design came up…

Turkey has entered into talks with China, Russia, and South Korea on possible deals to build the country’s second and third nuclear power plants (NPPs), and with the US and…

On 8 May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law prohibiting Chinese companies, or their “subsidiaries”, from purchasing any real property in Florida. Developments in other US states have…

The Honduran government last week informed Chinese officials it was looking for investors able to raise up to $20bn for a railway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, South China…

The Sun Tower, a 50m-tall viewing platform located in the east Chinese city of Yantai at the tip of Shandong peninsula, has topped out on the summer solstice of Earth’s…

A team comprising Dutch architect Mecanoo, Lola Landscape, and China’s Meng Architects has won a competition to masterplan a 1.2-sq-km “Scientists Valley” on a patch of land in the north…

China has signed a preliminary agreement with Pakistan to finance and build a 1.2GW nuclear reactor there worth $4.8bn, CNN reports. The deal was signed last week between Pakistan’s Atomic…

Chinese authorities have issued an operational permit for the country’s first thorium reactor. The decision comes two years after researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics unveiled a prototype,…

The eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu will let construction workers work beyond the state mandated retirement age of 60 for men and up to 55 for women as the workforce…

Chinese engineers this week used a smart machine to replace a section of railway bridge in four hours, the South China Morning Post reports. China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) said…

Work has finished on a 250,000-sq-m extension to Xiamen North Railway Station, which is to be a terminus of China’s latest high-speed rail line. When it opens to the public…

Construction has begun on the 154,700-sq-m Chengdu Jiaozi Courtyard Towers, occupying the last empty site of the city’s Jiaozi Park Financial and Business District. Comprising three office towers measuring 80m,…

A two-day trade and investment conference has been held in Riyadh to boost business between Saudi Arabia and China. As news site Zawya reports, this has led to more than…

A subsidiary of China Railway Group has won a contract to build the headquarters of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in Tanzania, the East African newspaper reports.…

UK architect Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its design for the West Bund Orbit exhibition hall on the Huangpu riverside in Shanghai, which will have open, ribbon-like staircase façade and a…

Construction began this week on the Cambodian side of a tolled motorway that will eventually link Phnom Penh with Ho Chi Minh City, China’s People’s Daily reports.   The Cambodian…

The government of Argentina has been holding talks with a Chinese company to invest in the country’s rail network. Transport minister Diego Giuliano held talks last week with the China…