On 4 Nov., 31 open-top wagons were delivered to Ministry of transportation in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The Minister of transportation was very satisfied with the wagons, and expressed the following purchase intentions.

An unveiling ceremony was held on Nov 3 in Qingdao to officially mark the establishment of the Joint Research Centre for Rail Transportation Manufacturing Technologies sponsored by CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. and Imperial College London.

As the electrified Ethiopia-Djibouti train pulls out of Furi-Lebu station in Addis Ababa, Omar Nour cannot contain his excitement. "This is the Chinese way, fast and efficient," he says of the 120 kilometer per hour train made by CRRC, after its inauguration in early October.

A light rail vehicle was put into test in Blue Line in Lagos, Nigeria. This is the first LRV in West Africa.

On 1 Nov., 2 DMUs arrived in Takoradi port, Ghana. This is the second DMU order after 2009. The DMUs were produced by CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.

After over 2 month’s operation on Shenyang-Dalian line, the CRH-0503# China Standardized EMUs have passed through 600,000 km field testing and will be put into mass production.

At the honk of a horn, the first electric-powered coach of the Urumqi subway No 1 was unveiled to the public on Nov 1. 2016.

Ministry of Science and Technology has decided to transfer some key research projects over to enterprises, such as the CRRC, a conference on major special rail transportation projects announced in October 21.