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It goes without saying that 2020 was a miserable time for the travel industry. That includes China, which was one of the few countries to get its economy moving again in the second half of the year. There was a pick-up in domestic tourism over ...
One unanticipated outcome of the Covid-19 crisis is that it has given the Chinese another chance to show the speed at which they can build (in this case, two new hospitals in Wuhan, see WiC482). The feat wasn’t lost on those with an interest ...
Xi Jinping’s New Year greetings listed three engineering marvels from China in 2019: the Beijing Daxing International Airport (see WiC469), the country’s first homegrown aircraft carrier (the Shandong) and the new Jingzhang Railway. The ...
Opening at about the same time as the high-speed railway line between Hong Kong and Guangzhou last October (see WiC429), the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge was long-delayed and heavily over budget. Backers of the world’s longest ...
Initially it was thought to be another example of shoddy construction. But the case of a collapsing bridge in Wuxi – a city in eastern Jiangsu province – was actually caused by overloading, a preliminary investigation has suggested. The 15 ...
It was almost exactly 10 years ago – on February 6 2009 – that WiC published its first Talking Point in our first issue. The focus was trains and what we described as the dawn of a revolution in high-speed rail. In that article we made our ...
The year 1992 was a difficult one in China. Economic growth had slowed for three consecutive years and Deng Xiaoping’s reforms were being stymied by conservative forces who argued that the country was moving too fast and too far from the ...
Jardine House was Hong Kong’s tallest building until 1980 when it was surpassed by the Hopewell Centre in Wanchai. Xu Jiatun, head of the Hong Kong branch of Chinese news agency Xinhua – a role which in that era made him the country’s ...
In the nineteenth century the railway industry was a symbol of Britain’s industrial might. For the Chinese it was another indicator of the nation’s humiliation and the limits of its sovereign power. The first commercial railroad in China ...
Passengers do better out of high-speed rail than investors, it seems. The backers of bullet trains argue they pay their way by benefiting the wider economy but few high-speed lines are said to make money on a consistent basis – though ...