Brazil midfielder Hernanes has left Juventus to join Hebei China Fortune of the Chinese Super League in a deal worth up to £8.5m. The 31-year-old was part of the Brazil squad at the 2014 World Cup and has also played for Lazio and Inter Milan. He joins former Arsenal forward Gervinho, former QPR midfielder Stephane Mbia and former PSG striker Ezequiel Lavezzi at Hebei. Argentine forward Lavezzi reportedly earns £400,000 a week at the club. Hebei China Fortune are managed by former Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini and are currently training in Marbella, Spain, with the new Chinese Super League season starting at the end of February.

SHANGHAI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A 120 billion yuan ($17.5 billion) nuclear power plant in China's northern Hebei province is expected to come online by 2020 and will use a Toshiba-owned <6502.T> Westinghouse reactor, the state-run China Daily said on Thursday. China's nuclear agency said last year that it would build a nuclear reactor in heavily polluted Hebei province, an area near the capital Beijing, in a bid to cut smog and promote cleaner energy. [nL3N16Q2L5] The Hebei plant will use a Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, China Daily said, citing CNNP CHD Hebei Nuclear Power, a unit of China National Nuclear Power Co Ltd <601985.SS>. Westinghouse said last year it expected to connect its first 1,000 megawatt reactor to the grid in China this year and that four in total were under construction in the country. [nL8N1BS4B7] China is trying to boost its use of nuclear energy. One of its biggest state reactor builders has said the country's total installed nuclear capacity could rise to 120-150 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 from 28.3 GW in 2015. [nL3N16M3QX] Construction of the Haixing nuclear plant, which will be Hebei's first nuclear facility, began last year in the coastal city of Cangzhou, China Daily said Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/nuclear-power-plant-in-chinas-hebei-to-be-online-by-2020--china-daily-20170208-01575#ixzz4aE3PiacO

Four new subway lines will be built to link Beijing and neighboring Hebei province by 2021, as part of the region's integrated development, Hebei's top economic planner said. The subway lines, together with other means of transportation, will cut the transfer time between the capital and cities in Hebei to less than 1 hour, according to a transportation plan released by the Hebei Development and Reform Commission for the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20) period. According to the plan, one of the four subways－the Pinggu Line－will link Beijing's Pinggu and Tongzhou districts with Sanhe in Langfang, Hebei. Preparatory work for the Pinggu Line has already started and is expected to be completed by 2021, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. The other three lines, which are in the planning phase, would link Yizhuang in Beijing with downtown Langfang; Daxing in Beijing with Gu'an in Langfang; and Fangshan in Beijing with Zhuozhou in Baoding. Development of the urban rail transportation system in the Beijng-Tianjin-Hebei region must be accelerated as there is significant demand for transportation services for short- and medium-distance journeys in the region, according to the plan. By 2015, five cities in Hebei－Langfang, Cangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Baoding and Tangshan－had become part of a "one-hour traffic circle" connecting them to the capital. However, large volumes of commuters traveling to and from Beijing every day require bus, subway or intercity railway services that provide faster and more frequent modes of transport. To better meet demand, a 58-billion-yuan ($8.4 billion) investment will see the total length of the urban rail transportation system in Hebei, including lines connecting Beijing, reach 80 kilometers by 2020. Intercity railway lines that connect Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, not including subway lines, will be extended to a total of more than 400 km. Intercity railway stations will be established mainly around Beijing's new airport in Daxing district and Chongli in Zhangjiakou, a co-host of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Construction of the stations is expected to guarantee convenient routes for passengers traveling between the new airport and Winter Olympics venues. The upgrade of the transportation system will aid in moving Beijing's noncapital functions, and the transfer of industries and people to Hebei, the plan said, adding that it will also create job opportunities and help develop the local economy. "The system will make life more convenient for residents of the capital's neighboring cities, which will attract more investment," said Wang Yuling, an official at the Hebei Development and Reform Commission.