President Xi Jinping holds talks with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept 15, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — President Xi Jinping met with his Mongolian counterpart, Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, at Forumlar Majmuasi Complex in Samarkand on Thursday afternoon. Xi pointed out that China-Mongolia relations have maintained good momentum of growth, and exchanges and cooperation…
A 'Sky train' starts trial runs in Qingdao, Shandong province on July 20, 2017. [Photo/Chinanews.com] China’s first commercial suspended monorail, known as a “sky train”, has been rolled out by its manufacturer in Qingdao, Shandong province. Its design and development have employed many advanced technologies, making it not only a new style of rail transportation,…
Workers lay the last track of the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway at a new station in Xiamen, Fujian province, on Tuesday. China’s first cross-sea high-speed railway line will open in Fujian province between June and September next year, and is expected to promote the development of economically dynamic coastal city clusters in southeastern China, the line’s…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…