News China sends prototype Moon bricks into space 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…
News Chinese firm beats French rival to Casablanca high-speed contract 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…
News Peru’s ‘transformational’ Chancay Port opens for business 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…
News China starts connecting world’s biggest offshore solar farm to grid 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…
News Brazil rejects joining China’s Belt and Road 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…
News China moves in on Vinci’s Kenyan highway scheme 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…
News US-Chinese team to masterplan a science district in Hangzhou US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Chinese designer GAD have won a competition to masterplan a research district in the city of Hangzhou, about 100km west of Shanghai.…
News China State Construction considers industrial zone at New Alamein China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) is to examine the business case for building an industrial zone in New Alamein City, a mega development on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast that may…
News Vietnam invites big Chinese firm to help build $67bn North-South Railway Vietnam has asked China’s biggest contractor to help build its North-South railway, an epic infrastructure scheme that is expected to lay 1,700km of high-speed track at a cost of $67.3bn.…
News “Outright sabotage”: Why a judge ordered China Construction America to pay $1.6bn The New York State Supreme Court judge who ruled this month that contractor China Construction America (CCA) owed damages worth $1.6bn to the developer of the Baha Mar resort in…
News Bangladesh road tunnel disappoints in tumultuous first year A year after opening, Bangladesh’s $1.6bn tolled road tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong has failed to attract the volume of traffic that was projected, BDNews24 reports. The 3.4km-long…
News Vietnam puts cost of railway to China at $7.2bn Vietnam has estimated that the cost of building a railway to China’s southern Yunnan province would be $7.2bn, Vietnamese state media report. The 427km link would run from the border…
News SOM designs 270m-tall Shenzhen headquarters for shipping giant CIMC Ground has been broken on a global headquarters for shipping company China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC). The building, designed by US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is intended…
News China First Highway begins work on $1.5bn Cameroon motorway China First Highway Engineering Corporation has begun design work on the second phase of a motorway that will run east–west between Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and the port city…
News Lowest bid revealed for Dubai Metro’s Blue Line project The bids have been entered for Dubai Metro’s Blue Line, which will add 30km and 14 stations to the emirate’s mass transit system. According to business website Meed, the lowest…
News China Energy Investment to spend $24bn on coal-to-oil plant in Xinjiang China’s biggest miner has announced has begun work on a $24bn plant to turn China’s future coal surpluses into chemicals. China Energy Investment (CEIC) said it is building the plant…
News Chinese engineers killed in latest suicide attack in Pakistan Two Chinese engineers were killed and at least 10 people were injured in a suspected suicide attack last night near Jinnah international airport in Karachi, Pakistan. A third body was…
News MVRDV designs China’s badminton headquarters with racket roof and shuttlecock tower Dutch firm MVRDV and China’s Huayi Design have won a competition to design the Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park. This complex will be the home of China’s national badminton team, and…