Dutch architect MVRDV it to reconfigure a former oil refinery as an urban quarter for the southeastern city of Hangzhou. The plan is to make the 18ha Hangzhou Oil Refinery…

The government of Kyrgyzstan has held talks with Chinese contractors over the construction of a 1GW solar farm in the Central Asian country, news agency AKI Press reports.  Akylbek Japarov,…

Chinese battery manufacturer Eve Power will build a €3.7bn factory in Debrecen, Hungary, boosting the country’s role as the centre of the European electric vehicle (EV) industry. Hungarian foreign minister…

Data from China Railways, the country’s national rail operator, shows that fixed-asset investment in the first four months of the year was $24bn, a 6.3% rise on the same period…

The first two units of China’s Hualong One reactor design passed their final acceptance test, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced this week. The country’s future nuclear plans are based…

The 5.1km Dalian Bay Undersea Tunnel across the mouth of Bohai Bay in northern China opened to traffic this week, China Daily reports. The tunnel in Liaoning province consists of…

A 3,000km railway from China’s Xinjiang autonomous region to the Pakistani port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea would cost $58bn, but a feasibility study says it would be worth…

China has become the first country to set out a construction programme for a hyperloop, the vacuum-tube maglev system that would theoretically allow trains to travel at up to 1,000…

A Chinese construction supervisor at the Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan has been arrested on blasphemy charges after a crowd assembled to protest over alleged remarks he made that workers…

Work got under way on Sunday on a massive China-financed public housing scheme in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, Global Times reports.  The project is being built by China State…

China has has dramatically expanded rescue lending to countries that borrowed money from it for Belt-and-Road infrastructure schemes, a new study finds. By the end of 2021, China had undertaken…

The government of India has launched its $600m “Vibrant Villages” programme to develop homes and roads in Himalayan states, India Express reports. This scheme, which was announced in the 2022…

Almost all of China’s provincial governments that have announced their budgets intend to increase spending on large construction and infrastructure projects this year. According to analysis by news agency Bloomberg,…

The CIOB in China has turned the institute’s renowned online photography competition, Art of Building, into a popular, live exhibition in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Art of Building celebrates…

A railway bridge between China and Russia over the Amur river in southeast Siberia was approved last week, website RailFreight.com reports. The bridge will connect the city of Mohe in…

Honduras’ recent decision to break diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favour of China was driven by the country’s need for investment in construction and development, and the calculation that this was more likely to come from the People’s Republic.

China is working on an “island builder” super-dredger that will be significantly more potent than the most powerful existing ships, the South China Morning Post reports.  The dredger will have…

According to the government of Myanmar, talks are under way on restarting a 1,215km railway across the country, between China’s Yunnan province and the Bay of Bengal, Voice of America…