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Chinese Rail & Infrastructure News

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Beijing’s answer to gridlock?

Meet the ‘straddle bus’, China’s 21st century solution to congested roads
Sep 17, 2010 (WiC 78)

In surveys of things people love to hate, traffic usually comes close to the top. That’s a complaint Beijingers are only too familiar with – the Chinese capital recently won the dubious honour of having the world’s most aggravating commute ...

Railway deal cements Beijing’s ties to Buenos Aires
Jul 23, 2010 (WiC 70)

"For a few days, war with Britain seemed possible, and even imminent,” wrote Winston Churchill. The surprise is that the war in question was set to be with the United States of America. The little-remembered spat arose in 1895 over a ...

The stock market will partially fund China’s most high-profile railway line
Mar 5, 2010 (WiC 51)

It became known as “Railway Mania”, a period in the UK during the 1840s, when irrational exuberance created one of history’s most notorious stock market bubbles. The country was a laying down the world’s first inter-city rail network, and ...

Exports are recovering, but China’s ports are not as busy as they should be
Mar 5, 2010 (WiC 51)

China started the year by passing another economic milestone – in January it overtook Germany to become the world’s largest exporter. The next landmark development will be when the Chinese economy surpasses Japan’s to become the world’s ...

Two cement giants battle for supremacy
Jan 22, 2010 (WiC 46)

If steel constitutes the bones of the industrial economy, then cement is surely the body tissue. And as the Chinese economy continues to bulk up, so too does the demand for cement. Take, for example, the recent opening of China United Cement ...

Fast track spending

High-speed rail hits the headlines, as new network takes shape
Nov 6, 2009 (WiC 37)

An express engine for the economy or a fast track too far? It’s one of the questions being raised this week, on news that the Chinese are moving quickly out of the slipstream of the Japanese (the Shinkansen bullet train) and the French (the ...

China’s spending programme on railways and subways surges
Jul 10, 2009 (WiC 23)

Deng Xiaoping believed that China had one key advantage over Western democracies: “As long as something has been decided and a resolution has been made, it can be carried out immediately without any restrictions. Meanwhile the parliamentary ...

From the ground up

Growing demand for cement belies an industry badly in need of consolidation
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

It might best be described as turning a crisis into an opportunity. Beichuan was a town that was utterly destroyed by last May’s Sichuan earthquake. A new town is being built in its place – but by Chinese standards it will be no ordinary ...

Why 2009 will be the year of the train in China
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

Not since Stephenson’s Rocket crawled between Liverpool and Manchester at 12 miles per hour has a country got so excited about railways. Of course, this being China, those railways have to be bigger and better. A couple of years ago China ...

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