China is creating a network of ambitious land- and sea-based transport links to connect its booming economy with those of Europe and Africa.
- Tom Calver
- BBC
And it’s wasting no time – designing incredible bespoke construction machines to get the job done fast.
President Xi Jinping’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, aims to connect two-thirds of the world’s population across 70 countries through a network of land links (the “belt”) and sea routes (the…
Officials talk about lifetime investments worth trillions of dollars, sourced from banks, participating countries and…