[Huadian 100MW Photovoltaic Project Approved]Recently, the Ecological Environment Bureau of Jinzhong City released a public notice on the approval opinions for the environmental impact assessment documents of construction projects to be made on January 17, 2024. According to the public announcement, the 100MW photovoltaic power generation project in Jiexiu City has been approved. The construction site of this project is in the area of Zhanglan Town and Lianfu Town in Jiexiu City, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province. The construction unit is Huadian Jiexiu New Energy Co., Ltd. The installed capacity of the project is 100MW. The main construction contents include photovoltaic arrays, inverter and box transformer systems, collection lines, 220KV booster stations, access and maintenance roads, supporting ancillary equipment, and environmental protection facilities. The total investment of the project is 490 million yuan, including 2.12 million yuan in environmental protection investment. 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