Australia’s economic policy chief, Treasurer Jim Chalmers, has warned that falling iron ore prices linked to a major slowdown in China’s construction output could lead to a A$3bn hole in…

China Construction New Zealand has told 25 subcontractors that it has suspended work on New Zealand’s tallest building, the 56-storey Seascape residential tower in central Auckland, the New Zealand Herald…

Chinese firm Shengli Oilfield Keer Engineering (Sokec) has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Sudan’s state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) to finance and build an oil refinery and storage…

A subsidiary of China Railways is considering investing in the creation of a major port in the West African state of Liberia. The China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group…

Fresh doubts have been cast over Russia’s proposed new gas pipeline through Mongolia to China after the newly-elected Mongolian government published its “Action Program” for 2024-28, prioritising medium and long…

China has given the green light to 11 reactors on five sites with a combined investment value of $31bn. The decision was made at a State Council meeting on Monday…

A team comprised of Chinese state-owned companies has won a design and planning contract for a new city in Mongolia, close to the town of Kharkhorum in the Orkhon Valley,…

Chinese lifting equipment manufacturer Sinoboom has broken ground on a 186,667-sq-m factory in Silao, central Mexico. It will have the capacity to produce 20,000 units a year, including scissor lifts,…

Shenzhen has become China’s first tier-one city to announce plans to buy unsold homes from struggling developers to turn them into rentals for low-income people. It comes three months after…

AtkinsRéalis subsidiary Candu Energy has won the contract to extend the operational life of the two Candu reactors at China’s Qinshan Nuclear Generating Station, Phase III, in Zhejiang province. They…

Construction on the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by ARTS Group, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Front Inc. has topped out in Jiangsu province, close to Shanghai. The 60,000-sq-m…

UK architect RSHP and Tongji Architectural Design Group have won a design competition for the second phase of the Zhongyuan International Convention Centre and Hotel in Zhengzhou, the capital of…

Iraq has chosen a team of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) and Siemens to rehabilitate unit two of the Baiji gas power station. The 1.6GW power station in Salahuddin…

Two Chinese contractors have started building major roads in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a $7bn deal that swaps infrastructure for a share in the country’s copper…

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics says China will build the world’s first large-scale molten-salt-cooled thorium reactor in the Gobi Desert next year, reports the South China Morning Post. China’s…

Russia and China are planning five missions to the Moon to place modules on its surface and in orbit around it, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reports, citing a statement by…

Construction has begun on the first of two new reactors, numbers 5 and 6, at the Ningde Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian Province, news website CGTN reports. The first concrete…

Chinese contractors will drill a 16km-long tunnel through a 2.4km-deep layer of glacial ice to build a major road in the far western autonomous region of Xinjiang. The West Tianshan…