State-owned Chinese construction firm digs deep in Russia for growth

Sixty years ago, a group of the then Soviet experts arrived in Beijing to help dig the first metro railway in China. Today, Chinese construction workers are in Moscow helping build the city's newest underground line.

The project is being undertaken by China Railway Construction Corp, a State-owned construction firm, which won the bids for building the southwestern sector of the Moscow metro railway and station projects in 2017. It was also the first time that a Chinese company was participating in a Russian underground railway project.

"It is a milestone for the underground rail construction industry to get the projects, and it's also the first time for a Chinese metro construction team to win a bid in Europe, which means China's railway construction industry has entered the high-end market," said Xue Liqiang, project manager of CRCC in Russia.