News Heatherwick reveals ribbon-laced Shanghai exhibition hall UK architect Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its design for the West Bund Orbit exhibition hall on the Huangpu riverside in Shanghai, which will have open, ribbon-like staircase façade and a…
News China Road and Bridge begins work on $1.6bn Cambodian link to Ho Chi Minh City Construction began this week on the Cambodian side of a tolled motorway that will eventually link Phnom Penh with Ho Chi Minh City, China’s People’s Daily reports. The Cambodian…
News Argentina in talks with Chinese company over $800m rolling stock deal The government of Argentina has been holding talks with a Chinese company to invest in the country’s rail network. Transport minister Diego Giuliano held talks last week with the China…
News 50km bridge to Zanzibar: Tanzania in ‘advanced talks’ with Chinese firm The Tanzanian government is planning to build a 50km bridge – the longest in Africa – between Dar es Salaam and the island of Zanzibar, Construct Africa reports. Geofrey Kasekenya,…
News Chinese battery maker to enter Africa with $6.4bn Moroccan battery plant Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with a Chinese electromotive group that wants to invest $6.4bn in a battery-making complex, website Utilities reports. Gotion High-Tech, based in Hefei, specialises…
News China halts floating nuclear power plan over security fears China’s plan to build a fleet of nuclear power reactors that would provide electrical power to islands on the South China Sea have been suspended over security concerns, the South…
Trends China’s “City of the Future” will have one big brain China’s city of the future, the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei Province, has been fitted with a $156m Urban Computing Centre that will act as its brain, storing a digital…
News China’s 18th Bureau wins technically ambitious $1bn Dubai tower Dubai’s Al Habtoor Group has picked China Railway 18th Bureau to build a $1bn tower in the emirate, saying the contractor stood the best chance of finishing the job in…
News China begins work on $14bn Chongqing reservoir Work began on Saturday to construct a reservoir in central China’s Chongqing metropolitan region, website CGTN reports. The Zaodu Reservoir project, which is expected to cost $14bn, will benefit more…
News Chinese finance moves into Central Asia as Russian, American influence recedes Chinese President Xi Jinping today unveiled China’s plan to boost economic development in five central Asian states with the help of additional loans worth $3.8bn, Reuters reports. Xi made his…
News MVRDV to turn former Chinese oil refinery into energy-neutral, mixed-use district Dutch architect MVRDV it to reconfigure a former oil refinery as an urban quarter for the southeastern city of Hangzhou. The plan is to make the 18ha Hangzhou Oil Refinery…
News Chinese investors discuss construction of 1GW solar power plant in Kyrgyzstan The government of Kyrgyzstan has held talks with Chinese contractors over the construction of a 1GW solar farm in the Central Asian country, news agency AKI Press reports. Akylbek Japarov,…
Trends Chinese battery maker joins surge of investors in Hungary’s EV industry Chinese battery manufacturer Eve Power will build a €3.7bn factory in Debrecen, Hungary, boosting the country’s role as the centre of the European electric vehicle (EV) industry. Hungarian foreign minister…
News China Railways fixed asset investment rose 6.3% in the year to May Data from China Railways, the country’s national rail operator, shows that fixed-asset investment in the first four months of the year was $24bn, a 6.3% rise on the same period…
News China’s all-important Hualong reactor passes final test The first two units of China’s Hualong One reactor design passed their final acceptance test, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced this week. The country’s future nuclear plans are based…
News China’s 5km undersea tunnel opens to traffic The 5.1km Dalian Bay Undersea Tunnel across the mouth of Bohai Bay in northern China opened to traffic this week, China Daily reports. The tunnel in Liaoning province consists of…
News China’s railway to the Arabian Sea would be worth the $58bn, study finds A 3,000km railway from China’s Xinjiang autonomous region to the Pakistani port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea would cost $58bn, but a feasibility study says it would be worth…
News China plans Shanghai hyperloop “by 2035” China has become the first country to set out a construction programme for a hyperloop, the vacuum-tube maglev system that would theoretically allow trains to travel at up to 1,000…