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Rail & Infrastructure

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Great train robbery

A county riots in Sichuan after rival city nabs its rail route
May 22, 2015 (WiC 282)

Chances are that if you have seen a movie adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, you will be familiar with Stamford in Lincolnshire. The near-perfectly preserved Georgian town is often used as a film location in English period dramas, and today draws ...

Will state firms get a free ride on Xi Jinping’s new Silk Road?
Apr 10, 2015 (WiC 276)

During last weekend’s tomb- sweeping holiday, state broadcaster CCTV devoted extended airtime to a commemoration of Chinese workers killed in Tanzania and Pakistan. Hundreds of workers are buried there, having lost their lives building the ...

Full steam ahead

Fresh orders and new JV to propel Bombardier’s China business?
Mar 13, 2015 (WiC 273)

Zhang Jianwei will this year celebrate his second decade with the Canadian firm Bombardier. Since 1999 the graduate of Tianjin University has run its China operation with a workaholic zeal. By his own admission he lives a life without weekends or ...

Biting the bullet

Beijing recognises that having rival train firms hurts its export ambitions
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

China’s railway ambitions have travelled some distance since 1888 when the Empress Dowager Cixi grew so concerned about the poor feng shui of her new steam locomotive that she insisted her railway carriage be pulled across Beijing by eunuchs ...

Break-up or make-up?

Beijing wants rail equipment duopoly to merge
Sep 19, 2014 (WiC 253)

China’s best-known historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins with a statement that might resonate with voters in Scotland this week: “The truism of this world is that anything long divided will surely unite, and ...

Magnetic attraction

A new maglev train causes controversy in Changsha
Aug 1, 2014 (WiC 248)

In 1966 maglev train design was pioneered by James Powell and his research colleague Gordon Danby of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Powell first had the idea while stuck in rush-hour traffic on the Throgs Neck Bridge between the Bronx and ...

Li Keqiang tours Africa in charm offensive
May 16, 2014 (WiC 237)

"How would you feel if we went and killed all your pandas?” That was the question put to a Chinese journalist by a Kenyan game warden. The query didn’t make the final cut of a Chinese documentary on the ivory trade last year. But the fact ...

Signs of strain as another $100 billion in railway spend is promised
Jan 17, 2014 (WiC 222)

On the face of it, China’s railways seem to be going from strength to strength at home and overseas. On a visit to Europe in November prime minister Li Keqiang announced that Chinese firms will build a railway linking the capitals of Serbia and ...

Chequebook journalism

Scandal as reporter admits he was paid to fabricate Zoomlion articles
Nov 1, 2013 (WiC 214)

In “our judicial system” the public can see the “alleged perpetrators”, explained New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg, after an angry French response to footage of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn being paraded in handcuffs ...

High-speed trains are proving a serious threat for Chinese airlines
Oct 25, 2013 (WiC 213)

Most airlines have in-flight magazines and China’s high-speed trains offer similarly glossy publications in their seatbacks too. En-route to Tianjin earlier this month WiC picked one up, noting its English name, Fellow Traveller, with ...

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