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AECOM's role in your linked project:
"AECOM’s main responsibility was to provide program and construction management as well as to ensure the quality and safety of the work with the local supervision professionals."
Doesn't say what you think it says, yet again. They're there for program management, not engineering design.
They also noted: "This project has set up an important milestone in China’s national railway project as it was unprecedented to appoint a foreign consultant to provide professional construction supervision service."
This means that every HSR project prior to that one was 100% domestic IP, as stated by your own document.
Does it matter? Point is China hasn't built its infrastructure in a vacuum. Besides on mega infrastructure investments project management is far more critical.Large Chinese NOCs such as CNOOC often hire western firms to manage large projects not just in China but on other continents as well.