News China to spend $31bn on 11 new reactors 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…
News Chinese firms to plan a new city in Mongolia 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,…
News China’s Sinoboom is building a factory in Mexico 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,…
News Shenzhen to buy unsold new homes for low-income renters 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…
News AtkinsRéalis to give China’s Qinshan III reactors 30 more years of life 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…
News Bjarke Ingels-designed art village tops out in China 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…
News RSHP designs major Zhengzhou convention complex 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…
News CSCEC, Siemens picked to restore Iraq’s 1.6GW gas power plant 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…
News Chinese firms start roads in DRC in $7bn mining swap 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…
News China plans 60MW thorium reactor in Gobi Desert by 2029 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…
News China, Russia agree plan to build Moon base by 2035 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…
News Concrete poured for reactor 5 at Fujian nuclear power plant 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…
News China’s Xinjiang highway will have a 16km ice tunnel 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…
News New technology aids 22-hour concrete pour on $7bn Shiziyang Bridge Chinese equipment maker Sany says it has made a technical breakthrough in its work on the Shiziyang road bridge over the Pearl River delta in Guangdong. The $7bn crossing will…
News Shanghai sets 29GW offshore wind target The Chinese government has approved a plan put forward by the People’s Municipal Government of Shanghai to build more than 29GW of offshore wind capacity. The plan, reported in the…
News China to invest $600m in Kazakhstan beef farming Chinese companies plan to invest around $600m building a meat farming hub in Kazakhstan, Azernews reports. Kazakhstan’s agriculture minister Aidarbek Saparov reached the agreement with executives from Chinese companies CITIC…
News World’s widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge opens in China The Fengyi Bridge in Shaanxi Province in central China has opened for traffic. UK consultant Arup, which designed and engineered the span, said it’s the widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge in…
News Huawei finishes $1.4bn Shanghai research centre, complete with 104 cafes Chinese tech company Huawei has completed work on its $1.4bn research and development hub near Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reports. Begun in 2020, the campus covers about 160ha,…