Giraffes walk beside the railway bridge in Nairobi National Park. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] On Sept 10, 2019, a train equipped with various testing instruments set out slowly from the Nairobi Terminal and headed to Suswa, in the heart of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. As part of the one-month joint debugging test, the…
A passenger boards a bullet train at Nanjing Railway Station in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, Sept 12, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — A total of 105 million Chinese tourists traveled around the country during this year’s three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday which started Friday, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said Sunday. The figure represented a…
Fifty years ago, the Mexico City Metro’s first journey began with cheers and applause. “A lot of people were too scared to board the metro … It was something they were not used to,” the conductor of that first journey, Juan Cano, told Xinhua. On the morning of Sept. 5, 1969, Cano drove through the…
Construction work on the southern extension of Shenyang Metro Line 2 started in Shenyang, the capital of Northeast China’s Liaoning province, on Aug 28, and is expected to finish in 2024, according to local authorities. The south extension line will start from Quanyun Road and end at Taoxian International Airport’s T3 terminal, stretching 14.2 kilometers.…
A picture of Beijing Daxing International Airport, taken by drone in August. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — The utility tunnel project at the new Beijing Daxing International Airport has passed an initial inspection with world-leading culvert jacking technology. The utility tunnel is a passage built underground to carry utility lines such as electricity, water and sewer pipes,…
A new high-speed railway linking Chengdu and Guiyang, which connects a number of tourist attractions including the Leshan Giant Buddha,has been completed.[Photo/Xinhua] The track-laying job on a new high-speed railway linking Chengdu and Guiyang in southwest China has been completed, said the construction firm Tuesday. Running through mountainous terrain, the railway connects a number of…
Rescuers and workers gather next to a train after it collided with a truck at a rail crossing in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Sept 5, 2019. [Photo/IC] TOKYO – Dozens of people were injured after a train collided with a truck in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Thursday, causing the train to derail. According to…
Summary：The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link will be the first express rail in China to be covered by 5G … The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link will be the first express rail in China to be covered by 5G networks, Wei Ming, CEO of China Mobile’s branch in South China’s Guangdong Province, said on Wednesday. The…
Guangzhou’s Metro Line 18, which has been under construction since 2017, may be extended 60 kilometers from Zhongshan south, making possible subway rides from Xiangzhou district to downtown in the provincial capital. The Zhuhai Public Resources Trading Center posted a website notice Aug 20 calling for bids on preliminary research. Investigated will be station locations, environmentally…
A high-speed train runs on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link after departing from Shenzhen North Railway Station in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong province, on May 11, 2018. [Photo/IC] BEIJING — More Chinese traveled by rail during the just-concluded summer travel rush, the latest data from the national railway operator showed. A total of 735…