Many businesses and governments in Africa long relied on aging railroads and port facilities to ship valuable cargo such as coal and precious metals for export. Their early, narrow-gauge railways could handle only steam-powered trains traveling at up to 40 kilometers per hour or so, and their loads were limited.
Centrally administered enterprises focus on innovation, meet big demand.
The connection line project between T3 Terminal of Huanghua International Airport and the Changsha maglev line in Central China's Hunan Province, the world's first medium- and low-speed maglev tunnel to be built with shield method started excavation as the tunnel boring machine (TBM) began operation on Nov 20.
The major section of China's longest coal bed methane pipeline finished construction on Nov 29, one step closer to commencement of operations, its operator China United Coalbed Methane Corp said.
The first hydrogen-powered bus developed and manufactured by Jiangxi Kama Business Bus Co Ltd (Bonluck Bus), a subsidiary of China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach), was recently put into operation in Australia.
The first luxury passenger ro-ro vessel with a 3,800-meter lane and 2,500-passenger capacity built by Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Limited, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC), was recently launched.
The Taweelah seawater desalination project in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the largest of its kind that is still under construction in the world, recently succeeded in producing qualified drinking water.
Heavy trucks running on new energy will gradually replace diesel-fueled ones in the transportation of coal for power generation in Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, to help reduce carbon emissions in the city.
Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Co., Ltd. (XINXING PIPES), a subsidiary of Xinxing Cathay International Group, has played a role in the Umm Al Hayman (UAH) Waste Water Project in Kuwait.
The accumulated crude output of Liuhua 16-2, China's first self-operated deepwater oilfield cluster, exceeded 5 million cubic meters, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Nov 11.
As a major power supplier for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Daya Bay nuclear power station is poised to fuel local development with more clean energy.
The combined profits of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) rose 47.6 percent year-on-year to over 3.8 trillion yuan ($594 billion) in the first 10 months of this year, official data showed Nov 25.