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Chinese Rail & Infrastructure News

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China’s latest engineering feat is a spectacular desert railway
Jul 8, 2022 (WiC 592)

China has built railways through towering mountains, above permafrosted soils and across choppy seas. But the completion of a railway around the edges of the Taklamakan Desert in western Xinjiang is further proof of its mastery of hostile ...

End of the line

Fengtai reopens as Asia’s biggest train station
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

Fengtai railway station in Beijing was the Chinese capital’s first proper train station, built in the late 1890s during the minor construction boom that followed China’s defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War. The terminus, which used to ...

Taking its toll

Government orders expressways to stop charging
Mar 4, 2022 (WiC 575)

When the Guangzhou-Foshan (GF) Expressway opened for business in 1989, it was hyped as the Pearl River Delta’s answer to Route 101, the highway that runs through California that helped to shape the Silicon Valley of today. To celebrate the ...

Hangzhou express

Work begins on a public-private high-speed line
Feb 11, 2021 (WiC 528)

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 ...

A tempting offer?

Talk of a CRCC bid to build UK’s high-speed rail – but the SOE denies it
Feb 28, 2020 (WiC 484)

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 ...

On track for profit

China’s best-performing high-speed railway ready to list in Shanghai
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

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 ...

Baying for business

Now a year old, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge needs more traffic
Nov 1, 2019 (WiC 472)

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 ...

Problems with their weight

Why truckers are heroes for the economy but villains on the roads
Oct 18, 2019 (WiC 470)

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 ...

A well trained country

In the decade that WiC has published, bullet trains have transformed China
Feb 8, 2019 (WiC 440)

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 ...

Xi Jinping visits Guangdong in the latest ‘Southern Tour’
Oct 26, 2018 (WiC 429)

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 ...

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