New high-speed rail line completed in northeast

Workers connect the last two steel rails of a new high-speed line linking Mudanjiang with Jiamusi in Heilongjiang province on Monday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] As the last two steel rails were connected, the track-laying work for a new high-speed rail line was completed in Heilongjiang province on Monday. Construction started in November 2016 on…

Chinese firms ship steel rails for Jakarta project

File photo of the shipment of the first batch of made-in-China steel rails for Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway line. [Photo/China Railway Material Group] The shipment of the first batch of made-in-China steel rails for Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway line from Saturday has signaled Chinese steel companies’ increased competitiveness as the country is one of the…

Chinese touch lifts infrastructure

Using imaginative business models and high-tech, CR20G lands overseas projects A Chinese consortium led by China Railway 20th Bureau Group Corp (CR20G) and China Communications Construction Co will build a sea-crossing cable-stayed bridge to connect the city of Salvador, capital of Bahia, the northeastern state of Brazil, and the island of Itaparica in the same…

Free trade zone opening up economy of region

The Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is vowing to seize opportunities brought by the newly established China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone and expand economic and trade cooperation with neighboring countries. Established on Aug 30, 2019, the Guangxi FTZ made great progress in utilizing foreign capital. This was demonstrated by the $170 million in foreign investments…

China’s freight volume continues to grow in October

An aerial photo shows a China-Europe freight train ready to leave the Tuanjiecun Station in Chongqing municipality, Southwest China, April 3, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – China’s national freight volume, an indicator of economic activity, grew faster in October from a month earlier, signaling the country’s steady recovery from the COVID-19 fallout. The country’s freight volume…

18 cities told to prepare for cold snap

A new wave of cold weather will hit central and eastern provinces in the next couple of days, the China Meteorological Administration said on Sunday. The administration’s latest forecast said temperatures in 18 provincial-level region capitals on Monday are expected to be the lowest so far this year. Cities such as Hefei, Anhui province, and…

Train’s ski-gear ban triggers avalanche of disapproval

Skiers in Beijing planning a bullet-train ride to a nearby resort cluster now have to think again. A new regulation banning large carry-on ski equipment on the high-speed railway linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou’s Chongli district in Hebei province has irked users of the service, with calls growing for a more flexible policy to be adopted.…

Beijing subway system ranks 1st in daily passenger volume

Passengers use mobile apps in a subway train in Beijing. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/China Daily] China’s capital Beijing ranked first in the world in both total and average daily passenger volumes of urban rail transit by the end of 2019, said a white paper on the city’s smart subway development published last week. According to…

Experiencing the opening of China’s very first high-speed railway

Train from Moscow descending Badaling Pass towards Beijing in 1987.[Photo by Bruce Connolly/Provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Experiencing the opening of China’s very first high-speed railway in 2008 The year of 2008, a special period in time for China. Beijing would host the 2008 Olympics while the country would launch its initial high-speed rail line. A project that…

China port handles over 200,000 TEUs via China-Europe freight trains since 2014

A crane loads containers at Erenhot Port in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region on April 11, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] HOHHOT — The border port of Erenhot in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region has handled over 200,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) via China-Europe freight trains since 2014, the local railway operator said Wednesday. Since initiating…