China has targeted its economic growth at over 6 percent for 2021. It is a decisive move reflecting a high degree of certainty and confidence in the country’s development amid a destabilized global economic outlook marred by the COVID-19 pandemic. The growth target, as announced by Premier Li Keqiang in the government work report, presents…
Shanghai will implement the country’s new plan for an international hub in Hongqiao with 75 concrete measures to boost connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta and link domestic and global markets. Chen Yin, executive vice-mayor of Shanghai, said on Wednesday that the development of the hub will focus primarily on transportation, exhibitions and conventions, and…
Regulators envision network of roads, railways, waterways and air routes China’s transport regulators introduced the prospects of a nearly 700,000-kilometer network on Monday as they rolled out a comprehensive transport blueprint. “The network, which will connect all county-level administrative regions, borders, major facilities and tourism spots, will be comprised of roads, railways, air routes and…
XI’AN－Although China has entered a high-speed railway era, there still exist “slow trains” in several less-developed areas. Such trains provide villagers with a track to the outside world and prosperity. When train No 6064 stopped in Yangpingguan station, 51-year-old Xue Qing’e was trying to board with 30 kilograms of vegetables on her back. Xue was…
China has unveiled a high-profile guideline to build a more convenient and high-quality transportation network by 2035, allowing most residents to have access to a national highway within 15 minutes, a freeway in half an hour and a railway in an hour. The plan, which was jointly released on Wednesday by the Communist Party of…
Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, is promoting the construction of a global transportation hub by increasing investment in the building or expansion of its airport, ports, high-speed railway lines and expressways. It will also enhance infrastructure connectivity with Hong Kong and Macao and other major cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to speed…
Territorial space has been reserved in Guangdong province to build two high-speed maglev lines, according to a local territorial spatial plan. The plan, issued in early February by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Natural Resources, outlines land use arrangement for the next 15 years in Guangdong, an economic powerhouse in South China. The space will…
A crane loads containers at Erenhot Port in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region on April 11, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] HOHHOT — A total of 6,072 China-Europe freight trains have passed through the border port of Erenhot in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region since 2013, according to the local customs. The trains carried about 4.82…
Workers from China Railway Tunnel Group weld the connecting bars of the steel arch at the head of the tunnel borer to prevent falling rubbles, Oct 22, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] Tunnel workers overcome harsh conditions for river transfer project. At the No 4 inclined wellhead of the Qinling Mountains Water Conveyance Tunnel in Northwest China’s Shaanxi…
The first China-Europe freight train since the Chinese New Year departs from Wujiashan station in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13. [Photo by Wang Hongyang/for chinadaily.com.cn] Loaded with surgical masks, protective suits and surgical suits, the first China-Europe freight train since Spring Festival headed toward the port of Malaszewicze of Poland from Wujiashan railway station…