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Construction of a rail line linking Beijing's city center with its southern suburbs began on Sunday.
Dongguan, the manufacturing center in the Pearl River Delta, is poised to fight off the difficulties brought by the ongoing world financial crisis.
A major airport in Tibet saw its first night flight Wednesday, ending its 43-year history of daytime services.
More than 500 professional managers from the world shipping community gathered to discuss new developing patterns during the weekend at the Third Global Shipping Summit in the port city of Northeast China’s Liaoning province.
Guangdong province in south China has pledged to invest more than 40 billion yuan to build infrastructure projects in the province's rural areas before 2012.
Guangdong province is looking forward to more cooperation with Taiwan on technology, agriculture and finance, a senior government official said.
Guangdong province, one of the nation's key economic powerhouses, will spend 2.37 trillion yuan ($347 billion) on 222 items contained in 10 projects in the coming five years, the provincial development and reform commission said on Monday.
In a sign of the slowing global economy, more than 1,300 companies shut down, suspended business or moved their factories out of the Pearl River Delta in the first nine months of this year, a senior government official has said.
"We plan to open a new office here in Shenyang next year because Shenyang is the gateway for northeast China,"said James Zimmerman, Chairman of American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham-China) recently.
Work began on Sunday on a high-speed rail link between Nanning and Guangzhou that will cut travel time between the two south China cities from almost 13 hours to three.
Work will start in the first half of 2009 on a high-speed railway connecting Tianjin, a port city on the Bohai Sea, and Baoding, a city in central Hebei Province, it was announced at a meeting here on Saturday.
The global shipping industry needs confidence and patience in facing great challenges of the current financial crisis, said business leaders at the ongoing 2008 World Shipping (China) Summit in Dalian of Northeast China’s Liaoning province.