Healthcare wards off financial illness

Firefighters gather to prepare for disinfection works at the Wuhan Railway Station in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei province, March 24, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] Countries better prepared to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic from a healthcare perspective were less likely to need a strong economic response, which is a link that needed to be acknowledged, an Italian…

West ahead of peers in momentum

An employee performs maintenance work on a railway line in Chongqing. It is expected to be put into full operation by the end of this year. [Photo/Xinhua] As efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 are paying off, the overwhelming majority of western China achieved positive economic growth in the first half, the latest economic…

Full steam ahead for China-Laos railway trainees

A student of the first group of Laotian trainees for the China-Laos railway takes notes in Chinese and pinyin while learning traffic signs.[Photo/Xinhua] The first group of trainees for the China-Laos railway have been undergoing intensive Chinese language and professional railway theory training since mid-July in the Laotian capital Vientiane. Somphone Inleuangsy from the hilly…

Longest high-speed railway tunnel in East China completed

An 18.23-km high-speed railway tunnel in East China’s Zhejiang province is bored through on Monday. [Photo/Qianjiang Evening News] BEIJING — An 18.23-km high-speed railway tunnel in East China’s Zhejiang province was bored through on Monday, the China Railway Construction Corporation Ltd said. The completion of Dongming Tunnel, the longest high-speed railway tunnel in east China,…

Investment in transport sector sees solid increase

A trial train hits 220 kilometers per hour on a section of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway during a top-speed test run on May 4. [Photo by Xu Congjun/For China Daily] China’s transport industry saw steady recovery as investment in its infrastructure rose 6 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year to top 1.45 trillion…

China-EU fast-track rail freight cooperation

A train loaded with medical equipment, including surgical face masks and protective gowns, departs Yiwu, Zhejiang province, for Madrid, Spain, last month to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. LYU BIN/FOR CHINA DAILY Having departed from Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi province, a cargo train loaded with COVID-19 protective equipment and materials arrived in…

URUMQI – The laying of railway tracks for a new line linking Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with Qinghai province and beyond was completed Tuesday, paving the way for accelerating development in the country’s western region. The 1,213.7-km Golmud-Korla Railway, linking the city of Golmud in Qinghai and the city of Korla in Xinjiang,…

China’s cargo transport back to normal growth

BEIJING – China’s cargo transport industry reported faster growth in June with business activities recovering to normal levels, industry data showed. The China Transportation Services Index (CTSI) stood at 153.9 points last month, down 11.5 percent year-on-year, according to the China Academy of Transportation Sciences (CATS). The decrease narrowed from the 16.5-percent drop recorded in…