News International consortium begins work on 22km EU-funded Serbian rail scheme Construction has begun on a 22km-long bypass of the southern Serbian city of Nis. The project is being carried out by a consortium made up of Serbia’s Extra Auto Transport…
News Tiffany & Co Shanghai branch contains “diamond” encrusted façade by MVRDV Dutch architect MVRDV has designed a façade for a Tiffany shop in a Shanghai retail development bejeweled by 6,988 handcrafted glass “diamonds”. The shop is located in Taikoo-Li Qiantan retail…
News China Road wins $2.5bn PPP deal to build Angola’s first motorway China Road and Bridge (CRBC) has been chosen to build Angola’s first motorway: a 1,400km-long project that will link the north and south of the country, local media reports. Carlos…
News China, Kazakhstan businesses agree deals worth $3.7bn Businesses attending yesterday’s Kazakh–Chinese Business Council meeting in Astana signed some 40 deals worth a total of $3.7bn, news agency Kazinform reports. The event attracted around 500 representatives, including more…
News China rolls out world’s first carbon-fibre commuter train A Chinese train maker has unveiled a prototype metro train made from carbon fibre that it says is 11% lighter, making it more energy efficient and less hard-wearing on tracks.…
News 10 Design’s Hangzhou mall and office tower opens for business Work has finished on an office tower and shopping mall designed by China-based architect 10 Design for state-owned developer China Resources Land in Hangzhou, a city of 10.4 million people…
News China to begin work on world’s largest particle accelerator in 2027 China aims to start work on a $5.2bn particle accelerator in 2027, reports Global Times. The facility, the world’s largest, will be a circular electron–positron collider (CEPC), and its primary…
News Chinese energy engineer pulls out of Russia Chinese energy engineering firm Wison New Energies will discontinue all ongoing Russian projects and will “stop taking any new Russian business”, the company said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.…
News China’s home prices tumble fastest in nine years Official data shows that new-home prices in China fell at the fastest rate in nine years last month, Reuters reports. They dropped 0.7% in May from the previous month, Reuters…
News Foster’s tower set to be China’s first net-zero high-rise The 33-storey Z6 tower in Beijing, designed by UK architect Foster + Partners, aims to become China’s first high-rise office building to achieve the “Net Zero Carbon Outstanding” certification. Located…
News China plugs in world’s biggest solar farm A Chinese company has connected the world’s biggest solar plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang, Reuters reports. The 3.5GW, 32,947-acre farm is in a desert area near the capital…
News China seeks coastal charm with ‘beautiful bays’ campaign China wants to beautify its coastline by building more than 110 “beautiful bays” by 2027. Seven cities will also become “model zones” where their coastal areas can be classed as…
News Hungary plans ‘logistics ring’ around Budapest Hungary is planning to improve traffic flow in Budapest by constructing a Chinese-funded railway bypass and a motorway ring road, local media report. The V0 railway was discussed during Chinese…
News Construction begins on Asia’s largest hangar Work has begun on three airplane hangars in Shanghai that measure a total of 110,000 sq m, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The largest of the trio will…
News Chinese firms win $560m in works for Kuwait’s South Sabah city Kuwait’s Public Authority for Housing Welfare has picked two Chinese companies to build supporting infrastructure for a Foster + Partners’ planned new city 80km south of the capital. The work…
News China Communications only bidder for deep-water port in Georgia The job of building a deep-water port in the Caucasus state of Georgia has gone to the project’s only bidder, China Communications and its China Harbour Investment subsidiary. Levan Davitashvili,…
News China agrees to finance Russia’s first Pacific gas terminal China will help pay for Russia’s first liquified petroleum gas (LPG) terminal on its Pacific coast, shipping news site Marine Link reports. The aim is to complete a project that…
News Chinese engineers test world’s first boring-and-blasting machine Engineers at Tsinghua University in Beijing and China Railway Science and Industry Group have developed a prototype tunnel boring machine (TBM) that also blasts rock. The unit has passed tunnelling…