By ZHU WENQIAN in Beijing and SHI BAOYIN in Zhengzhou | China Daily The China (Henan) Pilot Free Trade Zone. [Photo/Sipa] Kaifeng, a city in the eastern part of Henan province, is looking to emerge as a logistics and transportation hub in Central China and a major connection point for domestic and foreign trade, according…
The “Contract 2.3” for the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima high-speed railway between Thailand and China is likely to be signed in October, said Thai Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob on Monday. Saksayam made the announcement after attending a virtual meeting of the 28th Thai-Chinese Joint Committee with Ning Jizhe, vice chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission.…
By WANG YING in Shanghai | China Daily Medical supplies relating to COVID-19 prevention and control in Italy are loaded onto a cargo flight of China Eastern Airlines Corp in Fuzhou, Fujian province, earlier this year. [Photo/Xinhua] State-owned cargo carriers should take the lead in developing an air logistics business and set up a mega…
By Andrew Moody | China Daily Workers load vegetables bound for Wuhan, Hubei province, at Nanning Railway Station in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in February, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] Key advantages held over Western democracies, experts say A centralized political system such as China’s may be better equipped than Western liberal democracies to meet the challenges of…
A China-Europe Railway Express freight train passes through China’s largest land border port of Manzhouli in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Tuesday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] HOHHOT – Manzhouli, the largest land port on the China-Russia border, has seen 1,100 China-Europe freight trains so far this year, marking an 11 percent increase year on…
By WANG KEJU | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-05-20 09:00 A self-driving taxi is seen in Changsha, capital of Hunan province. [Photo by Yang Huafeng/China News Service] Ministry pledges to push exploration, application of self-driving technology China will inject more funds into transportation infrastructure and push forward the development of self-driving technology to build…
A batch of industrial clusters with hundreds of billions of yuan in investments will be built in China, Economic Information Daily reported on Thursday. In May, some local governments published roadmaps on infrastructure construction investments focusing on 5G, artificial intelligence and industrial internet. In Guangzhou, 16 new digital infrastructure constructions have signed contracts on Monday…
JAKARTA, May 10 (Xinhua) — The first multi-span rigid frame continuous beam for the No.2 Bridge of Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway was successfully closed on Sunday. The steel structure continuous beam, which is being constructed by Power Construction Corporation of China, has a total length of 213.8 meters, crossing two highway ramps and an…
At 2 pm on May 1, two planes from Seoul landed at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. Disembarking were 136 South Korean technicians and supply representatives－the first batch of foreigners to return to Wuhan, Hubei province, to resume work since the novel coronavirus outbreak began late last year. After completing screening procedures at the airport, including…
URUMQI — Track-laying work has begun for a major railway project in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway spans more than 825 km, with a designed speed of 120 km per hour. It is located within Hotan prefecture and the Mongolian autonomous prefecture of Bayingolin. It will form part of the third…