Argentine President Mauricio Macri highlighted Friday the benefit to the country brought by the modernization of the Belgrano Cargas train line, an initiative that has the support from China. Macri directed the inauguration ceremony of the first 700 km of renewed railway tracks of the Belgrano Cargas train in the town of Joaquin V. Gonzalez…
DetailsThe last T-shaped beam was laid between two piers of the Nam Khone super major bridge, the longest bridge along the China-Laos railway, on Saturday in Lao capital Vientiane, marking the completion of the beam erection stage of the bridge construction. China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group (CREC-2), the Chinese engineering company in charge of…
DetailsPassengers take the metro in Shenyang, in Northeast China’s Liaoning province, on May 25. The first stage of the new Shenyang Metro Line 9 started trial operations that day. Residents using the Shenyang Metro Line 9 give the thumbs up on May 25. The first stage of Line 9 starts from Nujiang Park Station to…
DetailsLocal residents walk on the platform of a light rail station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 20, 2015. (Photo: Xinhua) The Chinese-built 34-km Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AALRT) network has transported more than 29 million people in just nine months, says the Ethiopian Ministry of Transport(MoT). In a report submitted to Ethiopian parliament, MoT…
DetailsSongjiang Tram, as an important part of the “Four Network Combination” in Songjiang District, started the operation of “First Line” since the end of 2018, has received extensive attention from Songjiang citizens. Till now, Songjiang Tram Phase I has been running safely for more than 140 days, and the average daily passenger flow is about…
DetailsPassengers taking the subway line 4 in Xi’an, capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province during its trial operation on Dec. 26, 2018. BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) — A total of 35 Chinese cities (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) had rail-based transit systems in operation by the end of 2018, according to the China…
DetailsBANGKOK – Anupat Tiprat, 21, has been dreaming of becoming a train driver in his home country Thailand. In coming weeks, he will travel to northern Chinese city of Tianjin to learn train maintenance and driving for three years. “I love trains, my grandma took me to travel by train when I was a kid,”…
DetailsVietnam’s capital Hanoi plans to increase the number of bus routes connected with China-constructed Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway from 43 to 50, with 65 bus stops along the route, local media reported on Monday. The bus system which connects with Cat Linh-Ha Dong railway route, built by the China Railway Sixth Group, will be…
DetailsA prototype high-speed maglev train with a top speed of 600 kilometers (km) per hour rolled off the assembly line in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The step marked a major breakthrough in the field of high-speed maglev technology, the one-paragraph Xinhua report said. The maglev train is…
DetailsChina rolled off the production line a prototype magnetic-levitation train with a designed maximum speed of 600 kilometers per hour in Qingdao on Thursday, filling the gap in travel speed between aviation and high-speed rail passenger transport in the country, according to its manufacturer. Launched in July 2016, the train is designed and manufactured in…
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