Train link creates a web of prosperity

Editor’s note: In this series, China Daily looks at some of the areas in which major progress has been made in the 10 years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in November 2012. An aerial photo taken in July shows the China-Laos Railway's Mohan train station in Yunnan province.…

No solution in sight in UK rail disputes

A pedestrian walks past the closed gates outside Victoria Underground Station London, on August 19, 2022, as strike action on Buses, National Rail and London Underground affects services. Public transport workers in London held fresh strikes Friday over pay and conditions, cutting services on almost all underground and overground rail lines that link up the…

Modern railway key to Kenya’s Vision 2030

Nairobi National Park Super Major Bridge along the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is equipped with noise deflectors in Nairobi, Kenya, in July. China-built SGR offers efficient, affordable mobility NAIROBI-As a veteran insurance sales agent, Farahana Mghoi used to spend seven hours on matatus, the public service vehicles in Kenya, from her hometown of Voi…

Mile-Mengzi high-speed railway in SW China’s Yunnan starts test run

Photo taken on Aug. 23, 2022 shows a comprehensive inspection train running on a grand bridge of the Mile-Mengzi high-speed railway in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The 107-km railway with a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour started a test run recently. (Photo by Wu Yu/Xinhua) Staff members…

Take the Belt and Road for prosperity

Photo taken on Aug 4, 2022 shows freight trains at Xi'an International Port in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. [Photo/Xinhua] The 10,000th freight train on the China-Europe railway of this year rolled out from Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province, on Sunday. The same day, a train left Qingdao port for Indonesia. It will be used…

BRI-related high-speed trains head to Indonesia

A set of bullet trains for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway is delivered by ship from Qingdao, Shandong province, to Indonesia on Sunday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The first batch of Chinese-made high-speed trains, customized for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia, will arrive in the Southeast Asian country by the end of this month, marking…

Tightened epidemic controls applied to train travel

People line up to receive a COVID-19 test at the gate of the Lhasa Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region. [Photo by Daqiong/For chinadaily.com.cn] Tailored, stricter epidemic control protocols are being implemented on trains to prevent the spread of COVID-19 via the railway network amid a recent surge in cases, the…

The first Beijing-Shijiazhuang-Europe freight train departs

The first Beijing-Shijiazhuang-Europe freight train was dispatched from Beijing on Tuesday and will arrive in Nizhnekamsk, Russia after a transit at the Shijiazhuang International Land Port, according to China News Service. The 50-compartment train loaded with more than 240 metric tons of refrigerator freezers, self-adhesive paper and spices accumulating a value of over 7.6 million…

Intercity rail along Yangtze gains speed

An aerial view of Jurong Station in Jiangsu province. Construction of an intercity railway project along the river in southern Jiangsu province sees a leap forward as the main building of Jurong Station, a major station along the rail and a future transportation hub for the county-level city, is nearing completion with a “breakthrough” achieved…