Railways are expected to expand to 4,700 kilometers by 2025 and 5,700 kilometers by 2035 in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, covering all cities at or above county level. Zheng Renhao, director of the Guangdong Development and Reform Commission, made the remark at a news conference in Guangzhou on Tuesday during a review of…
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World’s largest free trade deal helps better link nation with Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand NANNING－At Nanning International Railway Port in China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, containers of mini tillers are loaded onto China-Vietnam freight trains, ready for their cross-border journey. The owner of these China-made mini tillers is Vu Quang Hai, who runs a farming…
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China’s railway operator has reduced or suspended passenger train services in epidemic-affected areas to limit the risk of spreading the virus via the railway network, China State Railway Group said on Tuesday. China is currently operating about 3,000 passenger trains a day, less than one-third of the volume in normal times, the group said. The…
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China opposes external forces imposing pressure on sovereign states and rejects attempts to demand other countries to pick sides in a coercive manner, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a phone conversation with Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic on Friday. As Serbia’s long-term and reliable “ironclad” friend, China supports Serbia in safeguarding…
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With passenger trains reduced or suspended due to epidemic control in some regions across the country, China’s railway network was able to capitalize by running more freight trains in the first quarter. More than 948 million metric tons of cargo was transported by rail from January to March, a year-on-year increase of 2.8 percent, according…
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A multiple-unit train – more simply, a multiple unit or MU – is a self-propelled train comprising one or more carriages joined together. When coupled to another multiple unit they can be controlled by a single driver, with multiple-unit train control. The loop-line in Guiyang consists of 17 stations and it takes 1 hour and…
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BRUSSELS — Although the global economy is facing mounting uncertainty and sluggish growth due to COVID-19, economic and trade cooperation between China and Europe, which maintains sound momentum based on complementarity and mutual benefit, can act as a counter-balancing force and help stabilize the world. Resilience, vigor Economic and trade cooperation between the European Union…
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Largest port on Mongolian border sees number of trains pick up this year China’s largest railway port on the border with Mongolia has seen a significant rise in international freight train services over the past decade, boosting connectivity between China, Mongolia and Central European countries. By this month, Ereenhot Port in North China’s Inner Mongolia…
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Construction on the third section of a high-profile railway connecting Sichuan province and the Tibet autonomous region is ongoing, a political adviser told Xinhua News Agency recently. “The Sichuan-Tibet Railway is a strategic project with many challenges, including a complicated geological structure, which will make construct extremely difficult, and a sensitive environment in the region,”…
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The annual sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee are underway. Yang Jun, a CPPCC National Committee member and chairman of the CPPCC Qingdao municipal committee, brought his suggestions on three issues that are crucial to the future of the port city to China’s top political advisory…
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