[Bidding Opened for the Reconstruction Project of Yongtaiwen Expressway]On February 26, 2023, the results of the winning bid for the reconstruction and expansion project of the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Expressway from Huwu Town to Nantang Junction in Wenzhou, and from Yueqing Junction to Beibaixiang have been released. The project is led by Wenzhou Transportation Development Group Co., Ltd. The consortium formed by Zhejiang Provincial Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd. and Yueqing Communications Water Conservancy Investment Group Co., Ltd. won the bid. The total investment of the project is about 12.319 billion yuan, of which construction and installation costs are 8.076 billion yuan. The Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Expressway is an important part of the Zhejiang section of the G15 Shenyang-Haikou National Expressway. It starts from the Panhuo Interchange in the south of Ningbo City and ends at Fenshuiguan at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian. The total length of the entire line is 367 kilometers, of which the Wenzhou section is the entire length About 158 kilometers, passing through Yueqing City, Yongjia County, Lucheng District, Longwan District, Ouhai District, Ruian City, Pingyang County, and Huanan County in Wenzhou City. The Wenzhou Bridge in Wenzhou was completed and opened to traffic in May 1998, and the Yueqing section and the Nanbaixiang-Feiyunjiang section were completed and opened to traffic at the end of 2002. Editor / Zhao E
On April 3, 2026, the domestically developed maximum diameter 13.2-meter hard rock TBM by CCCC Tianhe started construction in Changshu. The machine is equipped with 7600 domestically produced rare earth special steel main bearings developed by the Institute of Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a rated life of over 15000 hours and performance exceeding imports. This move marks China Communications Construction Corporation's first achievement of 100% localization of core components for ultra large diameter tunneling machines, completely bridging the last mile of national production of major underground engineering equipment in China.Editor/Cheng Liting
At the Export to China SCO Choice Forum, Kazakh companies signed a $125 million agricultural export agreement with Chinese partners. Changsha Kaliev, the Minister of Trade of Kazakhstan, led a delegation to visit Shandong to deepen industrial and logistics cooperation. As the largest trading partner, the bilateral trade volume between China and Kazakhstan is expected to increase from 41 billion US dollars in 2023 to 48.7 billion US dollars in 2025, with Shandong's trade volume reaching 2.2 billion US dollars. Both sides are shifting from scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement, with a focus on promoting the export of high value-added, non resource, and green technology products to ensure supply chain stability.Editor/Cheng Liting