
China Invites Bulgaria to Join High-Speed Asia-Europe Rail with Turkey October 28, 2010, Thursday China has formally invited Bulgaria to join together with Turkey a project for a high-speed railway connection from the Far East to Europe. The invitation resulted from talks in Beijing between Bulgarian Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov and China’s Minister of Transport Li Shenglin, Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun, and leading Chinese railway companies, the press service of the Bulgarian Transport Ministry announced. The Ministry said the Bulgarian government is going to take part in trilateral talks with China and Turkey on the high-speed China-Europe rail. After that, in December 2010, the three countries are expected to sign a trilateral cooperation agreement on freight rail services. The transport authorities of Bulgaria and China have also decided to set up a bilateral contact group “because there is a strong interest on part of China,” the Transport Ministry announced. Tsvetkov also presented Bulgaria as a destination for investments in transport infrastructure to journalists from Radio China, Radio Beijing, and the English-language paper Economy Daily News. The news about China’s luring Bulgaria into the high-speed Asia-Europe rail project comes after on Wednesday Tsvetkov invited his counterpart Li Shenglin on part of the People’s Republic of China to consider investment opportunities in the field of transport and infrastructure. Bulgaria and China are …

China, High Speed Rail from Xian to Luoyang, October 23, 2010
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