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February 15, 2023 | Passenger

IRJ News in brief - Transit

Civil engineering contracts awarded in Toulouse, Manila, São Paulo, and Toronto, EIB loan for Pune metro and new lines open in Beijing and Taipei.

November 23, 2021 | High-speed

Testing starts at Beijing Fengtai two-level station

The rebuilt station will have 12 tracks for high-speed and 20 tracks for conventional trains.

August 4, 2021 | Infrastructure

New high-speed line opens in northeastern China

107km high-speed line links Chaoyang and Linghai.

February 2, 2021 | Asia

China focuses on connecting city clusters

China’s powerful state planning organisation, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), announced plans in December to construct approximately 10,000km of inter-city and urban rail lines in the next five years.

January 13, 2021 | High-speed

China approves new 342km HSL; trial operation on two lines underway

CHINA’s National Development and Reform Commission has approved the construction of a new Yuan 57.24bn ($US 8.86bn) east-west high-speed line connecting Xiong’an New Area, Hebei, and Xinzhou, Shangxi.

January 3, 2021 | Metros

China opens 18 metro and two LRT lines in 11 cities

WUHAN is the 11th Chinese city to open new metro and light rail lines since December 26 continuing a Chinese tradition of opening new lines during the New Year period.

August 6, 2020 | Technology

Beijing Metro Line 5 systems upgrade contract awarded

BEIJING Metro has awarded a contract to CRRC Sifang to upgrade the train protection and control systems on Line 5.

November 6, 2019 | High-speed

Beijing - Shanghai high-speed operator submits IPO plans

BEIJING-Shanghai High Speed Railway has announced a plan for an initial public offering (IPO), submitting a formal application to float on the Shanghai stock market.

September 27, 2019 | Asia

Beijing Daxing Airport rail links open

BEIJING’s new international airport at Daxing was inaugurated on September 26, together with metro and high-speed rail links to the $US 11bn hub, which is expected to handle 72 million air passengers a year.

January 30, 2019 | Metros

Beijing New Airport metro train unveiled

THE first train for the express metro link to Beijing’s second international airport was unveiled on January 29.

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