The China-supported 10th of Ramadan Light Rail Transit (LRT) officially opened to traffic on July 3. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang attended the opening ceremony.

China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd., together with the project owner, has put full cross-section hard-rock shaft boring machine from an idea into reality at the construction site for a hydropower station in Ninghai County of east China’s Zhejiang Province.

The first heavy-grade box girder along the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia was finished on April 28. China Railway No.4 Engineering Group is part of the construction team.

On March 2, Dongshan Tunnel, a key control project on the Suqi Highway (from Sunan Yugur Autonomous County of Gansu Province to Qilian County in Qinghai Province) along G213 National Highway, was successfully completed, marking the completion of the passageway linking Gansu and Qinghai along the Belt and Road. Construction of the tunnel is undertaken by China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group.

The first T-shaped concrete beam of the last and the longest bridge.

A dual-mode tunneling shield measuring 9.98 meters in diameter and around 146 meters in length was debugged in the national TBM industrialization center of the China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (CREG) on January 22. The equipment will be disassembled and transported to a railway tunneling project in Cefalu, Sicily of Italy.

On December 29, 2020, the CYP track laying machines of CREC arrived at the Luang Prabang Railway Station in Laos, marking the completion of the track laying between Vientiane and Luang Prabang on the China-Laos Railway and laying a solid foundation for completing the whole line by May 2021 and opening the railway to traffic in December.

On December 29, 2020, the Vientiane-Luang Prabang Section of China-Laos Railway was completed. Constructed by China Railway No.2 Engineering Group, the project lays a solid foundation for completing the whole China-Laos Railway before May 2021 and putting the whole line into service by December 2021.

China Railway (Wuhan) Electrification Engineering Group Co., Ltd. successfully installed the first high-voltage power cable of the Boten-Vientiane section of the China-Laos Railway in a tunnel near Vang Vieng, Laos on October 28.

Anding Tunnel, the longest along the China-Laos Railway, designed by China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co., Ltd. and constructed by China Railway No.5 Engineering Group Co., Ltd., was cut through on November 28, laying the foundation for the completion of the entire railway on schedule.