{"id":85241,"date":"2019-02-01T12:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85241"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:21:17","slug":"china-exports-shield-tunneling-machine-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/01\/china-exports-shield-tunneling-machine-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"China exports shield tunneling machine to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Xinhua<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A shield tunneling machine self-developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Co. Ltd (CRCHI), a major heavy machinery producer, passed acceptance tests on Friday and will be exported to Sri Lanka soon.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the country&#8217;s first domestically-made shield tunneling machine to be exported to Sri Lanka, according to the company based in Changsha City, central China&#8217;s Hunan Province.<\/p>\n<p>The machine, with a diameter of 3.7 meters and a 120-meter-long body, is relatively small in size but its functions and digging efficiency are equal to larger machines, said Zhang Ruilin, a designer of the machine.<\/p>\n<p>The machine will be used in drainage projects in Sri Lanka starting from April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua A shield tunneling machine self-developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Co. Ltd (CRCHI), a major heavy machinery producer, passed acceptance tests on Friday and will be exported to Sri Lanka soon. It will be the country&#8217;s first domestically-made shield tunneling machine to be exported to Sri Lanka, according to the company based in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}