China today started work on a magnetic levitation (maglev) line as part of its plans to construct an ultra-fast rail network, Global Times reports.     The plan is to build a…

Thirteen workers were still missing Thursday morning (5 December) after what’s being described as a ground collapse at a high-speed rail construction site in Shenzhen, southeastern China. Around 200 local…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has allowed China Railway Construction Engineering (CRCE), a state-owned company, to be reinstated for bidding on bank-financed projects provided it meets guidelines and co-operates with…

Construction has begun on the annual snow and ice sculpture festival in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China. The event, the largest of its kind in the…

Businesses in Zimbabwe are warning of severe power outages as the country struggles to repay a Chinese loan that funded a $2bn expansion of its main thermal power station. The…

German architect Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled its design for the Urban Glen project in the city of Hangzhou, about 70km southeast of Shanghai. This 800,000 sq ft mixed-use development…

Tanzania is to receive 264 freight wagons to improve cargo flows on its booming standard gauge railway (SGR).

In response to an unusual spate of mass killings in China, Beijing has launched a three-month campaign to pressure the country’s indebted local governments to clear the vast backlog of…

China has completed its East-route natural gas pipeline, which runs for 5,111km from the Russian border to Shanghai, seven months ahead of schedule, South China Morning Post reports. The final…

Lishui Airport in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province, designed by MAD Architects, is due to open by the end of the year. The airport is located in Lishui’s foothills, 15km southwest…

The city government of Hangzhou in eastern China has switched on the first centrifuge at the world’s most powerful gravity simulation machine, South China Morning Post reports. Known as “Chief”…

Japanese authorities are considering commissioning a Chinese transport system to take visitors up Mount Fuji, The Japan Times reports. Yamanashi Prefecture had been considering a light railway but, at a…

Chinese scientists working on the creation of a Moon base have sent fragments of brick into space to determine how they deal with its hostile environment, Space Daily reports. The…

The latest contract in Morocco’s Kenitra-Marrakesh high-speed rail link has gone to the China Overseas Engineering Corporation (Covec), a subsidiary of China Railways, business website Zawya reports. Covec was bidding…

China’s Cosco Shipping opened the first phase of its new Chancay Port in Peru yesterday after a two-year construction period. The complex 78km north of Lima will now begin handling…

China Energy Investments today connected the first instalment of its 1GW offshore solar farm to the grid. Lying some 8km off the coast of Kenli District in Shandong Province, northeast…

Brazil will not be joining China’s global infrastructure push, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a senior government official said last week. Celso Amorim, a diplomat and special advisor on…

China is in detailed talks with Kenya over turning a one-lane road running around 200km from the outskirts of Nairobi northwest to the town of Mau Summit into a four-lane…