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Chinese Rail & Infrastructure News

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BYD says monorail contracts will boost profits
Nov 18, 2016 (WiC 346)

Build your dreams is the company’s motto. And those dreams are expanding at BYD after it unveiled SkyRail, its newest product, last month. China’s largest manufacturer of new energy vehicles (NEVs) is branching out into battery-powered ...

Higher tolls and longer concessions likely for struggling expressways
Oct 28, 2016 (WiC 344)

The world's longest desert highway – which spans 900 kilometres of Inner Mongolia – opened to traffic last month. It offered evidence once more that China’s road-building race continues at a pace that leaves other countries in the dust. ...

Let the train take the strain

China’s most profitable high-speed train route makes Rmb6.6 billion
Aug 26, 2016 (WiC 337)

When Britain’s opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was filmed sitting on a train carriage floor for a three-hour journey between London and Newcastle last week, national newspaper columnists were aghast. If his team couldn’t even organise his ...

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 ...

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