An 886-kilometre railway with 226 tunnels and 396 bridges, about 72 percent of it underground or on piers. How crews bored the Lanzhou-Chongqing line through some ...
China’s mega-projects are usually photographed as objects: the world’s highest bridges, the biggest dams, the longest high-voltage lines. Look at them as conveyor belts instead — ...
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, ...
Pack your curiosity and a supply-chain mindset. A business traveler walks the old Silk Road from Xi'an to Urumqi to see how ancient trade routes are ...
Tesla's Shanghai plant went from bare dirt to delivering cars in 357 days. The interesting part isn't the shovels. It's the land, power grid, permits and ...
China runs more than 48,000 km of high-speed rail. Building it meant answering an awkward question: how do you keep a railway from cutting animal migrations ...
China's newest canal is 134 kilometers long, cost about $10 billion, and crosses a watershed — meaning barges literally climb a hill to reach the sea. ...
In a village thousands of kilometers from China's eastern cities, a small electric tricycle delivers parcels every afternoon. The story of one pickup point reveals how ...
China's massive investments in power grids, 5G networks, and solar farms are not separate from its tech ambitions—they are the physical foundation for AI, robots, and ...
One canal in Guangxi opens at the end of 2026. One in Anhui already carries coal and containers. Several more across southern China exist mainly as ...