Passengers take a picture in Lianyungang Railway Station, Jiangsu province, on Monday before boarding a high-speed train to Xuzhou, Jiangsu, as the railway begins service. WANG CHUN/FOR CHINA DAILY The last leg of an east-west high-speed railway corridor opened on Monday, completing the longest east-west passage in China’s high-speed rail network. The 3,422-kilometer passage starts from…
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Delegates arrive for the opening of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hanoi on Jan 26, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] At the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, which concluded on Feb 1, Vietnamese leaders set the country’s future development goals, which include making Vietnam an upper-middle-income economy by…
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Passengers line up to check in at the Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing, Jan 28, 2021. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/chinadaily.com.cn] Public security authorities step up investigations of hidden dangers Public security authorities have taken multiple measures to ensure traffic safety during the Spring Festival travel rush and crack down on related violations, the Ministry…
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Aerial photo shows the Mazeras Bridge of the Mombasa-Nairobi standard gauge railway in Kenya, May 12, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua] In early January, China unveiled a new white paper on international development cooperation in which Beijing has articulated a vision to engender more inclusive, quality and sustainable development in the world. China’s foreign aid will now be…
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An aerial view of Beibu Gulf Port in Qinzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] The upgraded free trade agreement between China and New Zealand will generate fresh momentum for further cooperation and boost modern trade in services and regional connectivity activities between the two sides, experts said on Tuesday. The two sides inked an…
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Passengers wait for trains at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai on Jan 3, 2021. YIN LIQIN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE BEIJING — China’s 2021 Spring Festival travel season will start on Thursday with lowered expectations of passenger flows as the country tightens measures to curb the COVID-19 resurgence. The 40-day travel peak is expected to…
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A China-Europe freight train loaded with anti-epidemic supplies departs from Yiwu, Zhejiang province, for Malaszewicze, Poland, on Monday, marking this year’s first service carrying protective materials from China to Europe. GONG XIANMING/FOR CHINA DAILY A China-Europe freight train loaded with anti-epidemic supplies that left Yiwu, Zhejiang province, for Malaszewicze in Poland on Monday is this…
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Maintenance workers for the China Railway Lanzhou Group on the Dunhuang Railway line in Gansu province on Jan 12. DU ZHEYU/XINHUA LANZHOU－While most people are still asleep, 24-year-old Song Weiying has already begun his work day as a “sand fighter” in the Kumtag Desert in Northwest China. Also dubbed a “terracotta warrior” or “scavenger,”…
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An aerial photo taken on Aug 13, 2020, shows a view of Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong province. [Photo/Xinhua] Guangdong province, an economic powerhouse in South China, will accelerate development of the intercity railway network in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to help boost the local economy, Governor Ma Xingrui said. “We will begin construction…
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President Xi Jinping inspects the Taizicheng rail station close to the competition venues and athletes’ village of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Zhangjiakou, North China’s Hebei province, Jan 19, 2021. Xi on Tuesday arrived in Zhangjiakou by taking the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail. He inspected the Taizicheng rail station, the National Ski…
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