CHINA Railway Corporation (CRC) has confirmed that tracklaying on the 343km Harbin - Jiamusi line in Heilongjiang, the country’s northern-most province, is complete.

FOLLOWING three years of construction, the Chinese city of Chengdu celebrated the opening of the 10.9km metro Line 10 on September 6.

THAILAND’s government has signed two contracts worth a combined Baht 5.2bn ($US 157.1m) with Chinese state enterprises for the first phase of the Bangkok - Laos high-speed rail project.

THE Chinese city of Kunming opened its fourth metro line on August 29, taking the total length of the network to 87.2km.

CHINA’s railway network carried a record 592 million passengers during the summer peak period from July 1 to August 31, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%, according to China Railway Corporation.

AMIDST continuing rises in China-Europe intermodal rail freight traffic, RZD Logistics and its sister company Far East Land Bridge reported a 1.8-times year-on-year increase in overall intermodal traffic in the first six months of 2017.

CHINA Railway Corporation’s new CR400AF Fuxing high-speed trains entered passenger service on the Beijing - Tianjin route on August 21.

TRIAL operation began on August 19 on the first 19.6km section of metro Line 2 in Nanchang, China, from Metro Central south to Nanlu.

NEW United Group (NUG), China, has awarded a Yuan 531m ($US 79.6m) contract to the Bombardier NUG Propulsion System Chinese joint venture to supply traction and control for 678 metro cars.

China is embarking on a hugely ambitious project to build a new railway between Chengdu and Lhasa in Tibet. Xinhua’s Yu Fei outlines the project and the environmental challenges facing its contractors and engineers.