China
In October 2025, a Chinese train hit 453 kilometers per hour in pre-service trials on the Shanghai-Chengdu corridor. It was the fastest a wheel-on-rail vehicle had ever moved in testing. The CR450 will enter commercial service on the Beijing-Shanghai line later this year at 400
Building the Future
Before you can enter the building, you have to be cooked. Not literally, but close enough. Visitors to the world's tallest pig farm, a 26-story tower on the southern outskirts of Ezhou, a mid-sized city in China's Hubei province, must pass through a sealed
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In 2021, the Chinese-Mongolian border saw its worst dust storms in years, bringing dust pollution 20 times healthy levels. Swirling gusts of sand created skies so thick it appeared to be night at high noon. Air conditioners choked. And those who dared step foot outside found their shoes filled