infrastructure

China’s harsh Zero Covid policy is putting huge pressure on the Chinese economy, with April’s data indicating a sharp downturn. The government wants to increase infrastructure spending and do more to help SMEs while also keeping employment stable, according to CBBC’s policy team, Torsten Weller and Joe Cash – so how likely are they to pull that off? Worries about the Chinese economy are mounting. Despite respectable growth of 4.8% …

Paul French interviews Geoffery Gresh – author of ‘To Rule Eurasia’s Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea’ – about the Maritime Silk Road, transparency and the UK’s potential role Geoffrey F. Gresh’s ‘To Rule Eurasia’s Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea’ (Yale University Press) is a sweeping study of the situation concerning the vital sea lanes running from Asia to North America, Europe and the UK. …

UtterBerry’s AI-enabled tech has already helped organisations like the London Underground in the UK, and has been making headway in China too. Founder Heba Bevan discusses the challenges and opportunities of exporting her company’s smart sensors to the China market Data is already playing a significant role in reshaping our world, from small things like the smartphones we carry around in our pockets to the ambitious development of Internet of …

  A rise in the Chinese student population benefits UK property market, writes Rosemary Playfair Investors from China are cashing in on the opportunities provided by a drop in the value of the British pound and increasing yields and rents in the UK buy-to-let market, particularly with student flats. The Chinese student population in the UK has grown by 34 percent in the last five years and China now sends …

The largest Chinese investor in the north of England BCEG had invested billions into infrastructure and residential projects in the north. Here, Yu Dongwen, director of BCEG International talks through the reasons for their investment in the north.   When did you launch in the UK and how has growth been since then? 2013 marked an important year for us. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was conceived in 2013, …

Beijing’s new airport opens on September 30th    Designed by Iraqi-British architect Dame Zaha Hadid, the airport terminals cover over a million square metres.   It cost RMB 80 billion (£9.3 billion) and took five years to build. Beijing Daxing International Airport will handle 45 million passengers annually by 2021, 72 million by 2025 and 100 million passengers a year by 2040. China Southern, China Eastern, Beijing Capital Airlines and …

The South African-based academic talks about green-tech opportunities along the Belt and Road countries Dr Steven Kuo is a Sino-Africanist who lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and regularly travels to Mainland China. He is Research Fellow within the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). He previously taught African politics and International Security Studies at SISU and was a full-time Consultant for Chinese clients …

Heavy investment in high-speed rail has been well publicised but autonomous rail transit will be the future of urban railways, writes Mark Xu Over the past decade, China has been investing heavily in its high-speed rail industry. The CBBC has followed this sector closely, both within China, as well as the ever-growing international market – including countries across Africa. Rail is one of the 10 priority sectors under China’s Made …

Tom Miller spent three years travelling around Asia researching his book China’s Asian Dream. Here he explains the far-reaching effects of China’s ambitious global goals To what extent is the Belt and Road initiative already benefiting the economy of China? It is still very early days, as the initiative was only announced in late 2013 and its success can only be judged in 10 or 20 years’ time. Having said …