Building of bridge over bay for high-speed rail begins

Construction of a high-speed railway bridge set to shorten the travel time between Shanghai and Zhejiang’s coastal city Ningbo started recently, authorities said. The 25-kilometer Hangzhou Bay Cross-Sea Railway Bridge is an important section of the high-speed railway connecting Jiaxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang province, an integral part of the one-hour traffic network in the…

Argentina celebrates railway line revamp

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…

Trial Run of Songjiang Tram Phase II Starts

Songjiang 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…

China sees fast growth in urban rail transit

Passengers 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…

Vietnam to connect more bus routes with China-built urban railway

Vietnam’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…