July 2009
Sections of the Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway will be linked together by the end of this year, Zhang Shuguang, chief of the transportation department at the Ministry of Railway told Beijing News....
Six companies, including Carrefour, Huayi Brothers, Shanghai Huge Group and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, have signed strategic co-operation agreements to set up businesses in Huangpo, a peripheral city of Wuha...
Cargo throughput at Chinese ports rose 17.5 per cent year-on-year in June to 598m tons, the fourth consecutive monthly rise. This was 0.7 per cent higher than in May....
Chinese citizens made 1bn domestic trips in the first half of 2009, up 11.7 per cent year-on-year, according to a survey by the State Administration of Tourism....
The Hubei-based Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile (DPCA), a joint venture between PSA Peugeot Citroen and Dongfeng Motor, is to shelve plans to build a third plant because of concerns of overcapacity, according to China Bus...
China Infrastructure Group-controlled Wuhan Yangluo terminal recorded a container throughput of 113,900 teu in the first six months of 2009, up 31 per cent over the same period last year....
Nantong police arrested a man on 24 July on suspicion of fraud in relation to the evasion of road tolls....
China Eastern Airlines, the country’s third-largest carrier, plans to launch 29 weekly direct flights between nine mainland cities and Taipei from September....
Western China’s industrial value added increased by 13.2 per cent in the first six months of this year, according to the State Statistics Bureau, well ahead of the 5.9 per cent recorded in the coastal region and 6.8 per...
A new toll road regulation was submitted to the people’s congress of Jiangsu province for approval on 27 July, according to China News Service....
Three pharmaceutical clinical research organisations (CROs) in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, including MediTech and Sundia, claim that Customs clearance time for CRO shipments has been shortened from three days to...
The Jiangsu city of Zhangjiagang imported 2,441.6 tons of wool in the first six months of 2009, up nearly 15 per cent year-on-year and worth a total of US$14.9m, according to the local inspection and quarantine bureau....
The National Audit Office has publicly criticised construction work on the Rmb67.5bn Xiluodu dam, the world's third-largest hydropower project....
Despite the depressed state of the global shipbuilding industry, Chongqing’s shipbuilders recorded revenues of Rmb5.6bn in the first half of 2009, a 21 per cent year-on-year increase....
China’s urban fixed asset investment increased by 33.6 per cent in the first six months of this year to Rmb9,132bn, according to the National Bureau of Statistics....
A major fire broke out at 11:55am on 18 July at the Yueyang Chemical Plant’s private terminal....
Bulk cargo port and logistics operator PYI Corp is expected to complete its 51 per cent acquisition of Yichang Port Group in October, according to company chairman Joseph Chow quoted by Lloyd’s List....
The Yangtze River Administration is sending a team of inspectors to check on the safety of ro-ro transport along the Yangtze, specifically in the Three Gorges Reservoir....
Statistics from Chongqing Municipal Government showed that during the first six months of 2009, the average disposable income of rural residents was Rmb8,192, up 9.9 per cent year-on-year....
The second runway at Jiangbei International Airport is expected to be finished in July 2010, according to Chongqing municipal government. The project was started in September 2008 and is now 30 per cent complete....
The first two purpose-built container vessels to transport Shanghai’s household waste will be put to use by 1 October, according Shanghai Maritime Safety Authorities....
UPS has opened an international air hub in Shanghai Pudong International Airport in a bid to increase its China market share....
Wuhan Iron and Steel has signed an agreement with Australian Centrex Metals to jointly develop iron ore mines in southern Australia....
Construction work on two bridges in Chongqing will start around 1 October, according to the municipal government....
Zhangjiagang imported a total of 2.236m tons of waste steel during the first six months of 2009, up more than 1,000 per cent year-on-year, according to the city’s inspection and quarantine bureau....
BASF is to press ahead with building a multibillion-dollar chemical project in Chongqing, despite the concerns of some Chinese environmentalists and residents....
Throughput at China’s main ports totalled 2.64bn tons in the first half of 2009, a rise of 0.5 per cent year-on-year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Transport....
An expressway project leading from a popular tourist destination in Guangxi province, Yangshuo, has been approved by the State Development and Reform Commission, according to the provincial transport authorities....
Central China’s Hubei province recorded a 10 per cent GDP growth in the first half of this year to Rmb540bn, according to local reports....
Taiwan UNI Air plans to launch a twice-weekly service between Chongqing and Taipei from September....
The All-China Environmental Federation is suing Jiangyin Port Container Co in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, in what is believed to be one of the first public lawsuits involving an environmental organisation as the main plaintiff....
SIPG Jiujiang port reported a record year-on-year monthly jump of 28 per cent in cargo throughput in June to 630,000 tons....
The world’s largest bulk cargo port company has been created in Hebei province in northern China, according to a report by Xinhua. Hebei Port Group is made up of the ports of Qinhuangdao, Caofeidian and Huangye....
China’s three largest airlines have called for the reintroduction of fuel surcharges on domestic routes in response to rising oil prices, South China Morning Post reported....
Retail and wholesale operator Metro plans to invest €80m to open four more stores in China this year, reported China Daily....
After five years of construction, the Suzhou-Nantong Yangtze Road Bridge was formally opened on 13 July.
The road bridge provides a link between the Jiangsu cities of Nantong and Suzhou....
Wuhan’s Baishazhou Yangtze Bridge was closed on 6 July for a new round of renovation work that is due to be completed by 30 September....
The development of China’s western regions still has a long way to run, according to the latest Blue Book of the Western Region of China....
Singapore’s state investor Temasek is reported to have been in talks with a unit of Bank of China to launch a US$1bn-2bn investment fund that will focus on China infrastructure projects.
The initiative was said to ha...
A local court in Jiangyin recently sentenced a truck driver to four years in jail for stealing the contents of a container he was transporting, according to China News Service....
Twenty people in Chongqing were confirmed killed by recent heavy rainstorms. The toll included 16 hikers swept away by a flash flood in Tanzhangxia Canyon in Wanzhou county....
Nissan Motor plans to launch its lithium ion battery-driven vehicles in the Chinese market in 2011, according to Yasuaki Hashimoto, president of Nissan (China) Investment....
Data published by the Yangtze Maritime Safety Administration showed that 153 major accidents and collisions happened within its jurisdiction between January and June this year....
The Asian Development Bank is to loan US$100m to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for urban improvements designed to spur sustainable growth and improve the environment....
In June, 1.08m passenger journeys were made via Chongqing Airport. This represented a 40 per cent increase on the same month in 2008....
Anhui provincial port authority has vowed to double the water level of the Yangtze River within its territory to 10 metres....
Sinopec and BASF are to go ahead with a US$1.4bn expansion of their 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing....
The first half of the year saw domestic investment in Chongqing jump 28.1 per cent year-on-year to Rmb39.8bn and 34.5 per cent in terms of the number of projects to 4,440, according to statistics released by the local governm...
The 318km-long Dazhou-Chengdu railway, the first express railway in southwest China, was put into operation on 7 July, reducing the train journey between Chongqing and Chengdu to two hours....
China Clean Energy Inc, a producer of biodiesel fuel and environmentally-friendly chemical products made from renewable resources in China, has confirmed that the construction of its Jiangyin plant will be completed in Septem...
A loaded truck caught fire on a ro-ro barge sailing on the Three Gorges Reservoir on 1 July, according to the Three Gorges Navigational Administration....
Real-time information about water quality from China’s major rivers and lakes is now available online....
The Dapu Tunnel in Shanghai will be closed on 10 July for major reconstruction....
Anhui’s new Provincial Port Law, released on 30 June and effective on 1 October, includes a warm welcome to outside investors....
Yangtze River police have arrested nine people suspected of carrying out one of the largest oil tanker robberies in recent years....
DHL Supply Chain plans to add 10 transportation hubs in China by the end of 2009 in response to growing domestic shipping activity, Dow Jones reported....
China’s domestic air passenger traffic in May increased 26 per cent from a year earlier, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)....
Flash Global Logistics says it has added 66 locations to its China network. The expansion enhances the company’s existing distribution, Customs clearance and Importer of Record capabilities....
The Deputy Director of the Go West department of the State Development and Reform Commission, Ms Li Yingming, told a press conference last week that a series of new incentive policies would be announced later in the year to p...
A key supplier to the Changzhou plant of photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturer Trina Solar is to establish a production facility next door to its client....
A rock collapse forced the temporary closure of the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway’s Jinyun Mountain Tunnel on 28 June....
The Deputy Minister of Transport Xu Zuyuan announced on 25 June that the central government would take measures to push through a vessel standardisation programme across the Yangtze trunkline by the end of 2013....
Construction has begun in Chongqing on what will be China’s largest recycled aluminium alloy project....
Throughput of general cargo along the Yangtze trunkline totalled 100m tons in June, up 14.5 per cent compared with the same month last year, according to statistics released by the Yangtze River Administration under the Minis...