Shao Fang, a nanny from Zhumadian, Henan province, takes a bullet train between the nation’s capital and her hometown every two months. The four-hour trip allows her to visit home every other month “to earn more money in Beijing and also see my sons frequently”. That is a stark contrast from 18 years ago, when…
The 480 km railway linking Kenya’s largest port city Mombasa to capital Nairobi, slated to be officially launched on Wednesday, will be a key infrastructure project that will push forward the East Africa nation’s modernization drive, a senior company executive said Monday. “The launch of the standard gauge railway (SGR) will undoubtedly contribute to Kenya’s…
The continuous beam with the widest span on Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway closed on Monday, marking significant progress of the project. Engineer Xia Jian from China Railway Design Corporation, the railway’s designer, said the beam crosses expressways and two ramps, and the surrounding environment is complicated. The design and construction of the beam is very…
The Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, a key crossroads providing western China with full access to global markets, will help expand the Belt and Road Initiative and support China’s opening-up in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, said Lan Tianli, chairman of the region and a deputy to the National People’s Congress. Early this month, 40…
China’s foreign trade soared by 32.2 percent on a yearly basis to 5.44 trillion yuan ($837.3 billion) in the first two months of the year, creating more confidence in the prospects of export growth and economic recovery for the rest of the year, officials and experts said on Sunday. They said outstanding new trade figures…
China has targeted its economic growth at over 6 percent for 2021. It is a decisive move reflecting a high degree of certainty and confidence in the country’s development amid a destabilized global economic outlook marred by the COVID-19 pandemic. The growth target, as announced by Premier Li Keqiang in the government work report, presents…
Shanghai will implement the country’s new plan for an international hub in Hongqiao with 75 concrete measures to boost connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta and link domestic and global markets. Chen Yin, executive vice-mayor of Shanghai, said on Wednesday that the development of the hub will focus primarily on transportation, exhibitions and conventions, and…
Regulators envision network of roads, railways, waterways and air routes China’s transport regulators introduced the prospects of a nearly 700,000-kilometer network on Monday as they rolled out a comprehensive transport blueprint. “The network, which will connect all county-level administrative regions, borders, major facilities and tourism spots, will be comprised of roads, railways, air routes and…
XI’AN－Although China has entered a high-speed railway era, there still exist “slow trains” in several less-developed areas. Such trains provide villagers with a track to the outside world and prosperity. When train No 6064 stopped in Yangpingguan station, 51-year-old Xue Qing’e was trying to board with 30 kilograms of vegetables on her back. Xue was…
China has unveiled a high-profile guideline to build a more convenient and high-quality transportation network by 2035, allowing most residents to have access to a national highway within 15 minutes, a freeway in half an hour and a railway in an hour. The plan, which was jointly released on Wednesday by the Communist Party of…