Railroads News
- Vice premier leads fast rail project
Date: 31-Oct-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
THE government has formed an inter-ministerial 'leading group,'chaired by Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan, to oversee construction of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway line, according to a statement on the Central Government's Web site yesterday.
The group will be responsible for overseeing the design and commissioning of the line, the statement said. It did not say what role, if any, there would be for foreign firms. Costing more than 200 billion yuan (US$27 billion), the new line will cut the time of the 1,320 kilometer journey to five hours from 12.
Cannot shun securitization: PBOC chief
CHINA cannot turn its back on securitization despite the turbulence touched off by the meltdown in the market for securities backed by U.S. subprime mortgages, People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said yesterday.
'It is common to see crises and difficulties in the financial world. We cannot easily say no to securitisation,'Zhou told a management forum at Beijing's Qinghua University. China, whose capital controls have shielded it from the fallout of the subprime turmoil, has been slow to embrace securitization. Only four asset-backed securities have been issued since the market was launched in late 2005.
Fund to buy U.S. equity firm stake
THREE of the biggest U.S. private equity firms have held preliminary talks about selling minority stakes to China's giant Social Security Fund, the Financial Times said yesterday.
The fund, which had 460 billion yuan (US$61.50 billion) in assets at the end of June, held discussions during the summer with the Carlyle Group, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. and TPG, formerly known as Texas Pacific Group, the report said, citing people familiar with the negotiations. It said negotiations would focus on the possibility that the Chinese fund would take a stake of up to 9.9 percent in one of the U.S. firms.
Zhenhai refinery to shut crude unit
THE country's largest oil refinery, Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co. Ltd., will shut a 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) crude unit for one month in November for a planned turnaround, an industry official said yesterday.
The shutdown came at a time when China faces the worst diesel shortage in four years. November crude throughput at Zhenhai was expected to drop 3 percent versus October to about 379,600 barrels per day.
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