May 2009
Mr Song Dexing, Director of the Waterway Department of the Ministry of Transport, said in an interview with China Waterway Newspaper on 25 May that companies involved in international shipping business and registered at Yangs...
China’s central government has allocated Rmb270bn for infrastructure investment so far in 2009, according to an official from the country’s top economic planning body, the National Development and Reform Commissio...
Ikea is to close its sourcing offices in Chengdu, Wuhan and Xiamen as part of a plan to better integrate its sourcing businesses in China....
China had set aside Rmb53.87bn for the huge south-to-north water diversion project by the end of April, according to the head of the project office Zhang Jiyao....
Two high-tech companies have decided to set up operations in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.
The US-based circuit protection products company Littelfuse is to consolidate its Taiwan wafer fabrication facility into Wuxi....
Jiangyin Yangtze Vessel Strip Yard is reporting record business due to the continued downturn in the shipping market....
The three provincial capital cities of Jiangsu (Nanjing), Anhui (Hefei) and Jiangxi (Nanchang) signed a memorandum on 22 May to forge a strategic regional development alliance....
Wuhan North Marshalling Yard, one of the largest yards in Asia, has started operations in Hubei province.
Nearly 10,000 rail freight cars will be diverted to the yard every day instead of travelling across the city centre...
Zhengzhou-based frozen food company Sanquan Foods plans to invest Rmb500m to build its southwestern manufacturing base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, reported China Retail News....
Nanjing Iron & Steel plans to issue 2bn shares in a private placement to finance a proposed Rmb8.6bn asset acquisition....
Fast food franchising giant Subway has opened its third restaurant in southwest China....
Urban rail transit construction is to be accelerated following a decision by the National Development and Reform Commission to approve the plans of 19 Chinese cities....
Regular container services to Taiwan could start by end of this year according to the general manager of Wuhan International Container Transhipment Corporation, the operator of Wuhan’s Yangluo container terminal....
Zhangjiagang terminal, part of the Suzhou port, reported a 29.7 per cent increase of throughput in April to 13.57m tons, up nearly 21 per cent over March....
Approval has been granted for the construction of a regional airport in Chizhou, Anhui province. Building work will start later this year and will take two-and-a-half years to complete, said Xinhua....
Chongqing is to spend Rmb300bn by 2012 on improving its transportation facilities, said Huang Qifan, executive vice-mayor of the municipality.
Some Rmb100bn will be used to improve its railways, river ports and Jiangbei In...
Chongqing Municipal Statistics Bureau said that the city showed strong signs of recovery in April, with industrial output up by 13.3 per cent over the same month last year and 6.6 percentage points higher than March....
Some 20,000 cubic metres of mudstone fell into the Yangtze River on 18 May after a landslide on a section of the river’s bank in Wushan county, Chongqing....
Mr Song Desing, Director of Inland Waterway Department under the Ministry of Transport, said in an interview published on 19 May that the growth of domestic container volumes would fall below 20 per cent for the first time in...
Dow Chemical is to spend US$200m on creating a logistics centre in Tianjin....
Ford Motor Co has approved a plan to build a second assembly plant in Chongqing to meet fast-growing demand for its cars in China, Xinhua reported....
A total of Rmb83.1bn will be invested in nine petrochemical projects in Jiangsu over the next three years, according to a statement by the provincial government....
Five more mainland ports have been approved for direct shipping with Taiwan, reported Xinhua....
Tunnelling work on the Nanjing Yangtze Tunnel was completed on 20 May, according to China News Service. More than 3,000 metres long and with a diameter of 15 metres, it is technically the most challenging project in China....
Construction work started in late April on western China’s largest steel marketing centre.
Longgang Steel Marketing Centre will be located in Longtan Industrial Park in Chengdu’s Chenghua district....
The Yangtze Waterway blueprint, compiled by the Ministry of Transport, the State Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Finance, has recently received approval from the State Co...
Toll Holdings, Australia’s largest logistics services company, has acquired the remaining 49 per cent of Shenzhen-based ST-Anda Logistics it does not already own....
Taiwan-based food and beverage group Uni-President plans to produce dairy products in Wuhan, Hubei province, reported China Retail News.
Xiao Fengshi, the general manager of Uni-President Central China, said Wuhan was attr...
According to a research report released by Hubei provincial job centres association, the average pay offer available in April at Wuhan job centres was Rmb1,322 a month, up 2 per cent over March....
The 12th China Chongqing International Investment and Global Sourcing Fair opened on 13 May....
China Clean Energy Inc, a manufacturer of fuel and specialty chemical products, said that the construction of its plant in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province will now be completed in September 2009....
Domestic air cargo and parcel post volumes in China increased 1.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, compared with sharp falls in the last quarter of 2008, according to Ministry of Transport data....
China’s fixed asset investment surged again in April as a result of the government’s fiscal stimulus package, but exports dropped further, reflecting continuing weak demand in overseas markets....
The Yangtze port city of Huangshi is attempting to restore its shipbuilding glory by giving the go-ahead to Huangshi Jinzhou Shipyard....
Jiangxi provincial government recently announced a package of strategic measures designed to speed up Jiujiang’s industrial development....
China’s iron ore imports in April jumped 33 per cent year-on-year to 57m tons, according to the General Administration of Customs....
According to statistics from the Nantong Maritime Authorities, Nantong recorded a 35.5 per cent year-on-year rise in foreign trade-related throughput in April to 3.02m tons....
The official spokesman for the National Office for Taiwan Affairs said on 13 May that representatives from the mainland and Taiwan had signed an agreement in Nanjing recently to increase air traffic between the two sides....
On 13 May, a road tanker loaded with 21 tons of petrol collided with a truck on the Feng Guan Expressway near Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, killing the tanker driver and his assistant....
PYI Corporation, the Hong Kong-based bulk cargo port and infrastructure operator, has proposed to raise HK$362m (US$46.7m) from a rights issue to fund its stake in Yichang Port Group, reported Lloyd’s List....
Transport authorities in Shanghai have announced that from 16 May, the section of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway between Xinzhuang and Xinqiao will be closed for the second phase of a renovation project....
China has started revamping a railway from Baoji in Shanxi province to Sichuan province’s capital Chengdu to enhance the line’s capacity and support rebuilding activities in the earthquake zone....
The Suzhou-Nantong Yangtze Road Bridge, the world’s largest cable-stayed bridge, has been formally opened in Jiangsu province after five years of construction....
First Automobile Works (FAW) and Volkswagen have officially started construction of its joint venture in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Xinhua reported.
With an annual output of 150,000 cars, the Chengdu plant will assemble th...
The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed passenger line will start operating by 20 December 2009, a year ahead of the original plan, according to a revised schedule from the Ministry of Railways....
The decline in the Yangtze’s dry bulk market eased in April, with the Yangtze Dry Index closing at 803.79 on 30 April, according to the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport....
China’s major airlines made a combined profit of Rmb1.3bn in the first quarter of 2009 after posting a loss of nearly Rmb30bn last year....
A barge hit rocks and capsized in the Yangtze River near Longmentan in Chongqing municipality on 27 April, dumping 900 tons of coal into the water. The five crew members were rescued uninjured....
Wal-Mart is speeding up its expansion plans in Chongqing, according to a municipal government website....
Cargo throughput at China’s main ports totalled some 500m tons in April 2009, down 1.9 per cent from a year earlier, according to an estimate by the Ministry of Transport....
Air passengers entering China are now subject to tightened quarantine procedures against A(H1N1) influenza, which at Beijing Capital International Airport have extended average waiting times by 30 minutes....
According to a press conference at the Ministry of Transport on 5 May, 1,263 toll stations on Grade 2 highways have so far been abolished, covering 70,800 km of road and amounting to 65 per cent of the national total....
Within three days of the May Day holiday, a total of 980 new flats exchanged hands in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province....
According to Nantong Inspection Bureau, a total of 200,040 tons of copper ore concentrates came through the port of Nantong in April, a record volume for a single month....
Wuhan started a direct express rail service to Shenzhen, Guangdong province on 6 May....
China Railway Group, the country’s largest railway and highway builder, said first its quarter profit jumped 87 per cent year-on-year to Rmb982m....
China’s railways carried 382.1m passengers in the first quarter of 2009, up 3.8 per cent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Railways....
The State Development and Reform Commission invited experts and scholars from the State Council Development Research Centre, China Academy of Social Sciences and State Macro Economy Research Institute to a seminar on 28 April...
Shanghai has launched feasibility studies into two new tunnels under the Huangpu River and an expansion project to increase capacity of the existing Xiangyin Road Tunnel....
Major cities in the Yangtze River Delta reported slower GDP growth in the first quarter of 2009 as the global downturn intensified, reported the Wuxi statistical bureau....
Shanghai Dazhong Taxi, one of the best known taxi companies in Shanghai, launched its Shanghai Expo service on 5 May by presenting 100 new taxis whose drivers have been trained to speak foreign languages....
Wuhan Iron and Steel Group, China’s third largest steel producer, has agreed to buy a 50 per cent stake in Western Plains Resources’ Hawks Nest project in South Australia....
According to the Yangtze Waterway Bureau, the 882km section between Yichang and Luzhou has been upgraded to accommodate vessels of 1,000 dwt and barge fleets of 3,000 dwt....