On 11 April 2017, in front of Xu Dazhe, governor of Hunan province and Liow Tiong Lai, Minister of transport of Malaysia, a contract of supply 13 hybrid EMUs and 9 high-speed EMUs was signed between CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co, Ltd. and the Ministry of Transport, Malaysia. All EMUs will be delivered by the end of 2018.

On 4 April 2017, a consortium of Chinese and Indonesian firms signed a contract with KCIC, a firm tasked with monitoring the high-speed train project linking Jakarta to Bandung, unveiling the construction phase of the project.

On 31 March 2017, a high-speed commuter train rolls off in CRRC Sifang Co., Ltd. It will be put into service in Line S1 of Wenzhou city in southeast China in 2018.

On 29 March 2017, CRRC Dalian Co., Ltd. has acquired a metro car order from Nagpur, India.

A mockup of the Orange Line car made by Chinese train maker CRRC Corp Ltd made a debut to its future passengers on 3 - 5 April 2017 at City Hall Plaza in Boston. It is the latest victory of the rail car builder to expand the US market.

CRRC Corporation Limited has inked an agreement with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) on 5 April 2017, which manages most of the public transportation services in the Greater Boston area in the US, to supply the latter with 134 subway trains.

CRRC just grabbed its first order from the United Kingdom on 22 March 2017, agreeing to supply 71 wagons for the London Underground.

CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. will supply 100 subway cars for Metro Line 2 in Mashhad, the second-biggest city in Iran in May