November 2011
According to the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport, the central government has allocated Rmb45bn for Yangtze capital projects between 2011 and 2015....
Direct flights between Chongqing and Doha started on 28 November, operated by Qatar Airways....
On 18 November, a ceremony was held in Luzhou container port to mark the first train service from its container yard....
Hubei provincial people’s congress was told on 28 November that the provincial government had received a total of Rmb19.23bn from the State Development & Reform Commission as of mid-November this year....
Sinopec and Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut, have signed a framework agreement for the joint development of restaurants at petrol stations and highway services areas across China.
Under the agreement, Y...
China’s railways carried 3.27bn tonnes of cargo in the first 10 months of 2011, up 8.1 per cent year-on-year, reported Xinhua....
Over the past six years, China has spent Rmb4.55bn on conservation work to preserve the source of the Yellow, Yangtze and Lancang rivers, a local conservation official said.
The ecological conservation programme, initiated...
The State Development and Reform Commission hosted a meeting on 21 and 22 November to evaluate a feasibility study for the first phase of what is known as the Nanjing 12.5-metre dredging project....
Construction of the New Energy Auto Zone started on 28 November in Jiangxia district, southeast of Wuhan....
Chongqing Maritime Safety Authorities announced on 18 November that they are taking measures to tackle the noise pollution along those sections that lie within the city proper....
Minister of Defence Mr Liang Guanglie visited the Three Gorges Dam and its shiplocks on 14 November. This is one of the most high profile visits from the ministry to the dam in recent years....
Nanjing Yangtze River Waterway Engineering Bureau, under the Ministry of Transport, is to issue Rmb300m-worth of 366-day unsecured bills on the interbank market on 29 November....
China Railway Container Transport and its wholly-owned subsidiary China Railway International Multimodal Transport have jointly launched a scheduled container rail service from the coastal city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu provi...
Suzuki Motor Corporation plans to build a new car plant in Chongqing that will double the production capacity of its joint venture with Changan Automobile to 500,000 units a year, according to the Nikkei newspaper.
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The Yangtze River port of Taizhou recorded a throughput of 100m tons in the first 10 months of 2011, the first time it has reached this level in any one year according to the local maritime safety authorities....
The Three Gorges Administration of Navigational Affairs announced recently that a ‘green channel’ has been created for use by eight categories of vessel....
The world’s biggest cargo carrier, Cathay Pacific, reported a 17.5 per cent fall in October volumes compared with the same month last year....
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Chongqing over the first 10 months of 2011 exceeded US$5bn, up 82 per cent over the same period last year, and ranking first in the country for the fourth year running....
PetroChina Southwest Marketing has signed an investment framework agreement to build a non-hazardous chemicals logistics centre in Chongqing Western Logistics Park....
Investment in China’s railways in the first 10 months of 2011 fell 25 per cent year-on-year to Rmb429bn, said the Ministry of Railways....
The Three Gorges GPS vessel management system is now capable of sending text messages with a range of information useful to vessels about to pass the shiplocks, including navigational conditions, water levels and weather fore...
The 54 high-speed trains taken out of service following the fatal Wenzhou high-speed-rail crash in the summer are to resume operations shortly on the Beijing-Shanghai line once modifications have been made, Xinhua reported....
Yichang, the city in Hubei province that hosts both the Three Gorges and Gezhouba dams, has vowed to invest Rmb8.2bn in terminal and waterway projects in the five years to 2015 to turn the city into a regional hub.
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More than two million people are facing drinking water shortages in Yunnan, southwest China, due to a continued lack of rainfall, the provincial vice governor said.
On 3 November, the authorities calculated 4.44bn cubic me...
The US-based aluminium producer Aleris has signed a letter of intent to invest US$200m in a plant in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. The facility will make aluminium coil and sheet for the automotive sector....
More money needs to be spent on improving the Yangtze River’s navigability, according to Bronson Hsieh, vice-chairman of Taiwan’s Evergreen Group....
China’s trains carried 3.26bn tonnes of cargo in the first 10 months of this year, according to Ministry of Railways’ data, an increase of 8.1 per cent year-on-year....
Air France will become the first airline to offer direct flights between Wuhan and Europe....
The Wuhan-Yichang high-speed railway, scheduled to start operation by end of November, has been postponed to allow further safety checks....
An expert panel organised by Hunan provincial government has approved a plan to invest Rmb170bn over the next 20 years in its inland waterway network including the Yangtze and one of its major tributaries, Dongting Lake....
Official statistics show that Nantong’s shipbuilding industry completed 5.31m dwt-worth of orders, totalling a record of Rmb100.5bn during the first three quarters of 2011, up 25.1 per cent year-on-year in terms of valu...
Japan’s Nippon Steel has announced a 50-50 tin plate joint venture with Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp.
The Rmb1.85bn plant is expected to start operation in the summer of 2013....
Investment in railway construction in China could fall to about Rmb500bn a year, according to an unnamed source quoted by China Securities Journal, down from the Rmb800bn a year proposed in a long-term plan.
The amount of...
China Yangtze Three Gorges Corporation announced recently that 90.92m tons of cargo passed through the Three Gorges Dam during the first 10 months of 2011, more than the total for the whole of last year....
Hefei river port in eastern China has recorded a container throughput of 30,971 TEU so far this year, already ahead of its annual target of 25,000 TEU, Xinhua reported.
Following the opening of the port’s multi-use t...
The Canada-based producer of lifts and escalators, Symax Lift (Holding), is to set up a new manufacturing facility in Wanzhou, Chongqing municipality.
Construction will start this month and end in August 2013....
Statistics from the Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport show that container throughput across the Yangtze trunk line reached 1m TEU in October, up 26.4 per cent over the same period last year....
The capacity expansion of the railway between Chongqing and Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, is scheduled to be completed in five years, according to the municipal government of Chongqing....
The Ministry of Railways is expected to receive more than Rmb200bn-worth of financial support to pay off bills and continue important railway projects, reported Xinhua....
Germany-based chemical company Oxea is to build its first chemical plant for the production of oxo derivatives in Nanjing Chemical Industry Park....
China’s rail cargo increased eight per cent year-on-year to 2.93bn tonnes in the first three quarters of 2011, Xinhua reported, and by 6.4 per cent to 2,160bn tonnes per kilometre....
For the second successive week, China Cargo Airlines has cancelled a scheduled freight service from Shanghai to Lambert-St Louis, reported IFW....
The Sanshan terminal project west of Wuhu city centre on the Yangtze River has recently been approved by the Ministry of Transport....
Shanghai International Port Group announced a fall in net profit of 9.52 per cent year-on-year to Rmb1.18bn in the third quarter of 2011....
Heavy fog affected the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the early hours of 1 November.
Maritime safety authorities in Nanjing, Zhenjiang and Taizhou suspended traffic at one point to avoid accidents....
At 5:00pm on 30 October, the water level at the Three Gorges Dam reached its maximum of 175 metres for the second time in history, according to official reports....