A light switch in Jinan, a turbine turning 1,000 kilometres west in Gansu. Inside the Longdong–Shandong ±800 kV project, and why China ended up with the ...

China's first batch of desert wind and solar bases totals about 97 gigawatts. In Kubuqi, that means sheep grazing under solar panels, sand being held in ...

Ningbo-Zhoushan Port became the first port in the world to top 900 million tonnes of cargo in a year. This article explains the geography, the difference ...

The world's biggest inter-basin water transfer moves water 1,432 km from the Han River to Beijing's taps. Here is how the three routes work, who benefits, ...

Thirty kilometres offshore in Hangzhou Bay, a terminal with no crane drivers and almost nobody in the yard handles close to half of Shanghai’s containers. A ...

A walk through Beijing Daxing International Airport: the five-finger layout that keeps every gate about eight minutes from security, the RFID bag tags and face-scan boarding, ...

How the world's largest hydropower station actually works: the reservoir that is emptied every spring, the 22.5 gigawatts that reach Shanghai and Guangdong, the five-step staircase ...

Opened in July 2020, the Husutong bridge carries six lanes of highway and four railway tracks across the Yangtze on a 1,092-metre main span. It turned ...

By cargo tonnage, the Yangtze is the world’s busiest inland waterway—far ahead of the Rhine and the Mississippi. But “busy” depends on what you count, and ...

The Yangtze's trunk-line ports handle about 4.2 billion tons of cargo a year — roughly seven times the Mississippi and close to China's entire rail network. ...