China-supported expo expected to give push to industry in Ethiopia

A local resident greets Chinese and African workers on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti railway during a trial run in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept 28, 2016. [Photo/IC] The second edition of the China-Ethiopia Industrial Capacity Cooperation Exposition, which is expected to help boost Africa’s industrial growth, will open in Addis Ababa on Tuesday.   The four-day event…

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Bogota picks China for new subway system

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…

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From high speed rail to e-commerce, Sino-Indonesian cooperation flourishes

The 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…

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New railway expected to open doors for Africa

Kenya 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,…

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China’s transportation sector maintains steady growth in September

Passengers 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…

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Chinese customs team up to improve clearance services

The 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…

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Guizhou prepares for 2018 Spring Festival travel rush

The 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…

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Guangzhou-Kowloon train halts service

An 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…

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