[CRRC won the bid for the first offshore wind power market project order]Recently, CRRC Zhuzhou Institute successfully won the bid for Segment 1 of the Phase II Offshore Wind Power Project at the South U1 Site of Shandong Haiwei Peninsula, State Power Investment Corporation. The 8.5MWD230 offshore unit that won the bid this time adopts a series of advanced technologies and the lowest cost such as regional customized blade design, lightweight semi-direct drive structure, high fault-tolerant electrical system, top-mounted box transformer, integrated hoisting, intelligent operation and maintenance, etc. Excellent design concept. This platform-based design unit not only has high reliability and power generation performance, but also has good maintainability. Edit/Ma Xue
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