After four years of reconstruction, Beijing Fengtai Railway Station, the capital’s first railway station with a history dating back to 1885, reopened on June 20, marking a milestone in the city’s traffic network development. The century-old train station covers some 400,000 square meters, about the size of 56 standard football fields, and is capable of…
With recent COVID-19 resurgences coming under better control nationwide, State-owned builders are stepping up efforts in infrastructure, a move outlined in the nation’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), to shore up livelihoods and the economy. With the first box girder of the Wuyi section of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed railway readied recently, construction of the railway, a…
Laotian Thepmoukda used to travel between Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and Boten, a city that borders China, for business by car. “The trip took several hours. The road was slippery, especially during the monsoon, and some sections were even not built with asphalt, but with mud,” the 27-year-old woman said, adding that she usually…
CHONGQING－With a new section launched on Monday, a high-speed railway line that passes through the area best known for the Three Gorges Reservoir has become fully operational in China. With a total length of 1,068 kilometers, the high-speed railway links Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality and Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province in the north of the…
A freight train loaded with 100 extra-large containers of electronic products, auto parts and general merchandise, departed from Chongqing International Logistics Hub Park on Thursday morning for Duisburg, Germany. It is the 10,000th freight train from Chongqing to carry goods on the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe International Railway. “I am proud to witness and carry out the mission.…
The speed of a major high-speed rail line in China has increased from Monday, cutting travel time between Beijing and a number of major cities in the south. Bullet trains can now operate at a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour along the line linking Beijing and Wuhan, Hubei province, up from the previous…
Unique design in remodeling turns rail terminal in capital into multilevel hub The reopening of a remodeled railway station on Monday in Beijing has not only attracted a great deal of attention because of its innovative designs, but also because it bears witness to a century of railway development. After four years of reconstruction, the…
A new railway is opening on Thursday in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, forming the world’s first railway loop circling a desert, national railway operator China State Railway Group said on Wednesday. The 825-kilometer line, linking the city of Hotan with the county of Ruoqiang in the Bayingolin Mongol autonomous prefecture, is on the…
China will mount consistent efforts to tap the potential of a green Belt and Road Initiative in helping drive the transition to a global low-carbon economy, said Zhao Yingmin, the vice-minister of ecology and environment. He made the remark at a forum about the BRI held on Tuesday on the sidelines of the annual general…
JAKARTA — The No 4 casting yard of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) on Monday completed the erection of 981 box girders as originally planned, marking a stage victory for the casting yard. With a total length of 142 km, the Jakarta-Bandung HSR has three casting yards, among which the No 4 casting yard was…