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Chinese Rail & Infrastructure News

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Hugely divisive

Floods this summer are set to give the Three Gorges Dam its biggest test
Jul 8, 2016 (WiC 332)

Mao Zedong once wrote a poem entitled ‘Swimming’, an ode to his vision for the Three Gorges Dam, a project that he strongly advocated. Unsurprisingly the mega infrastructure project was widely favoured by the engineers that later became ...

Leaving Las Vegas

Another setback for Chinese rail ambitions overseas
Jun 17, 2016 (WiC 329)

China’s plans for high-speed rail move at two different paces: steaming ahead at home, but frustratingly start-stop overseas. Consider the news that another Rmb4.7 trillion ($980 billion) in transport investment has just been announced on ...

That’s the ticket

Why passengers are grumbling about China’s train services
Feb 5, 2016 (WiC 312)

Each year the Spring Festival in China instigates what is commonly referred to as the world’s largest act of human migration: hundreds of millions of Chinese embarking on a journey home to celebrate the lunar new year. This national transit ...

Train of events

Hong Kong railway row points to changing times in the Pearl River Delta
Dec 11, 2015 (WiC 307)

"It was not a question of whether the undertaking would be an immediately remunerative concern: it was not a question of whether the railway would pay interest on the capital expended, or even if it would at once pay working expenses. It was a ...

Great train robbery

A county riots in Sichuan after rival city nabs its rail route
May 22, 2015 (WiC 282)

Chances are that if you have seen a movie adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, you will be familiar with Stamford in Lincolnshire. The near-perfectly preserved Georgian town is often used as a film location in English period dramas, and today draws ...

Will state firms get a free ride on Xi Jinping’s new Silk Road?
Apr 10, 2015 (WiC 276)

During last weekend’s tomb- sweeping holiday, state broadcaster CCTV devoted extended airtime to a commemoration of Chinese workers killed in Tanzania and Pakistan. Hundreds of workers are buried there, having lost their lives building the ...

Full steam ahead

Fresh orders and new JV to propel Bombardier’s China business?
Mar 13, 2015 (WiC 273)

Zhang Jianwei will this year celebrate his second decade with the Canadian firm Bombardier. Since 1999 the graduate of Tianjin University has run its China operation with a workaholic zeal. By his own admission he lives a life without weekends or ...

Biting the bullet

Beijing recognises that having rival train firms hurts its export ambitions
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

China’s railway ambitions have travelled some distance since 1888 when the Empress Dowager Cixi grew so concerned about the poor feng shui of her new steam locomotive that she insisted her railway carriage be pulled across Beijing by eunuchs ...

Break-up or make-up?

Beijing wants rail equipment duopoly to merge
Sep 19, 2014 (WiC 253)

China’s best-known historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins with a statement that might resonate with voters in Scotland this week: “The truism of this world is that anything long divided will surely unite, and ...

Magnetic attraction

A new maglev train causes controversy in Changsha
Aug 1, 2014 (WiC 248)

In 1966 maglev train design was pioneered by James Powell and his research colleague Gordon Danby of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Powell first had the idea while stuck in rush-hour traffic on the Throgs Neck Bridge between the Bronx and ...

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