The highly anticipated Beijing-Shanghai bullet train, with a speed of 218 mph, is expected to be put into use by 2012, said an official with the Railways Ministry, the Beijing News reported Friday.
“The high-speed train will not travel nonstop between Beijing and Shanghai. It will stop in Ji’nan, Hefei, Nanjing and Xuzhou,” said Yang Shaoqing, [...]
As many as 200 travelers will leave on the first tourist trips from Beijing to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) starting April 12.
They will be there during celebrations marking the birth of the country’s deceased former leader, Kim Il-sung.
It will be the first time Chinese travelers will visit the country on tourist visas, [...]
China’s highway mileage will surpass the United States in three years following completion of the ongoing construction boom, said Li Shenglin, Minister of Transport, on Sunday.
Despite the global financial crisis, the country’s fixed-asset investment on transportation development topped 1.13 trillion yuan (165.4 billion U.S. dollars) in 2009 which contributed 0.5 percentage points to GDP growth, [...]
China began Wednesday to build a railway over the Lop Nur, a former lake that is known as “the sea of death,” in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Construction workers began building a 3-km railway bridge in Nanhu town of Hami City, the starting point of the 370-km railroad, sources with China Railway Group Co. Ltd., [...]
Qingdao Port, China’s second largest foreign trade port, saw its foreign trade cargo throughput up 21 percent year on year in the first two months this year, the port’s chairman said Thursday.
Revenues of the state-owned port in January and February grew by 10 percent, a trend likely to continue in the first half of this [...]
China will expand its high-speed rail network to be the world’s largest in coming three years with a total length of 13,000 kilometers, according to Thursday’s China Securities Journal.
By the end of 2012, China would have more than 110,000 kilometers of operational railways, including 13,000 kilometers of high-speed rail, said Liu Zhijun, Minister of Railways [...]
