Colombian President Ivan Duque gives a speech at the ceremony announcing the awarding of Bogota’s subway project on Thursday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A consortium of Chinese enterprises won a bid from Bogota, Colombia to build the city’s first subway line, China’s CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co Ltd announced on Saturday. As a part of…
DetailsThe first “new international land-sea trade corridor” rail-ocean intermodal train bound for Indonesia in Southwest China’s Chongqing, April 26, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] JAKARTA – On Jan 8, 2019 just after the New Year holiday, dozens of students from the Nurul Falah Leles primary school at a remote village of Indonesia’s West Java province gathered at the…
DetailsKenya has extended its landmark railway project by 120 kilometers, a move that is expected to significantly help the country’s and Africa’s economic takeoff. The new line, linking Nairobi, the capital, with the resort town of Naivasha, was built using Chinese technology and standards, as was the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. Located in northwest Kenya,…
DetailsA man uses a phone connected to a China UnionPay card to pass through a fare gate during a presentation at a metro station in Moscow, Russia, on Oct 11, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] MOSCOW – People can pass fare gates at 150 Moscow metro stations from Friday by swiping a China UnionPay card with the “QuickPass”…
DetailsPassengers get on a train in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Sept 30, 2019. [Photo/VCG] BEIJING – China’s transportation industry has expanded steadily in September as an index measuring the vitality of the sector remained at a high level, according to the China Academy of Transportation Sciences. The China Transportation Services Index (CTSI) stood…
DetailsThe first “new international land-sea trade corridor” rail-ocean intermodal train bound for Indonesia in Southwest China’s Chongqing, April 26, 2019. [Photo by Liu Chan/Xinhua] Fifteen regional customs directly under the General Administration of Customs (GAC) of China on Sunday inked a memorandum of cooperation in Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality to support the New International Land-Sea…
DetailsThe railway department of Guizhou province was ready to receive a record number of passengers as the 2018 Spring Festival travel rush, also known as Chunyun, began on Feb 1 in China. The Spring Festival travel rush puts the Chinese transport system under a lot of pressure because migrant workers and university students need to…
DetailsA bullet train passes Bijie Railway Station during a test run on the Xingwen-Guiyang section of the Chengdu-Guiyang railway in Southwest China’s Guizhou province, Oct 9, 2019. The 632-kilometer Chengdu-Guiyang railway is a key constituent of China’s high-speed railway network, linking the capital of Sichuan province and the capital of Guizhou province with a design…
DetailsAn overhead view shows the interior of the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway in Hong Kong, on Sept 23, 2018. [Photo/IC] China Railway Guangzhou Group Co Ltd suspended through-train service between Guangzhou and Kowloon, according to a statement on Tuesday. Seven through trains departing from Guangzhou East Railway Station…
DetailsWorkers arrange the flower bed “Ethnic unity” near the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing, Sept 20. [Photo by Wang Jing/chinadaily.com.cn] BEIJING — Beijing has recruited more than 78,000 volunteers to maintain traffic order during the upcoming National Day Holiday, local authorities said Thursday. The volunteers will provide guidance and bilingual services to the public…
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