By Andrew Moody | China Daily Workers load vegetables bound for Wuhan, Hubei province, at Nanning Railway Station in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in February, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] Key advantages held over Western democracies, experts say A centralized political system such as China’s may be better equipped than Western liberal democracies to meet the challenges of…
A China-Europe Railway Express freight train passes through China’s largest land border port of Manzhouli in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Tuesday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] HOHHOT – Manzhouli, the largest land port on the China-Russia border, has seen 1,100 China-Europe freight trains so far this year, marking an 11 percent increase year on…
By WANG KEJU | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-05-20 09:00 A self-driving taxi is seen in Changsha, capital of Hunan province. [Photo by Yang Huafeng/China News Service] Ministry pledges to push exploration, application of self-driving technology China will inject more funds into transportation infrastructure and push forward the development of self-driving technology to build…
A batch of industrial clusters with hundreds of billions of yuan in investments will be built in China, Economic Information Daily reported on Thursday. In May, some local governments published roadmaps on infrastructure construction investments focusing on 5G, artificial intelligence and industrial internet. In Guangzhou, 16 new digital infrastructure constructions have signed contracts on Monday…
JAKARTA, May 10 (Xinhua) — The first multi-span rigid frame continuous beam for the No.2 Bridge of Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway was successfully closed on Sunday. The steel structure continuous beam, which is being constructed by Power Construction Corporation of China, has a total length of 213.8 meters, crossing two highway ramps and an…
At 2 pm on May 1, two planes from Seoul landed at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. Disembarking were 136 South Korean technicians and supply representatives－the first batch of foreigners to return to Wuhan, Hubei province, to resume work since the novel coronavirus outbreak began late last year. After completing screening procedures at the airport, including…
URUMQI — Track-laying work has begun for a major railway project in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway spans more than 825 km, with a designed speed of 120 km per hour. It is located within Hotan prefecture and the Mongolian autonomous prefecture of Bayingolin. It will form part of the third…
A special train carrying migrant workers arrived on Wednesday morning at the Qianfeng Farm on the Sanjiang Plain, a major rice growing area in Heilongjiang province. Qiang Ying, who rents 40 hectares of rice farmland, picked up 10 workers from the train and brought them to her farm. “Last year, thanks to the those migrant…
China-Europe freight rail service has hit a monthly record high in April as it plays a bigger role in maintaining the global supply chain amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the country’s top railway operator on Saturday. Freight trips between China and Europe witnessed a record high last month, said China State Railway Group,…
BEIJING – Millions of travelers jumped on trains Friday, the first day of the five-day May Day holiday in China, for gatherings or sightseeing, the railway operator said Saturday. A total of 7,394 trains were in operation, carrying 7.37 million travelers, a record daily high since the Lunar New Year, according to the China State…