[Anhui Province S20 Changgu Expressway Huoqiu to Anhui-Henan boundary section started]On August 31, 2024, Huoqiu County ushered in the grand groundbreaking ceremony of the S20 Changgu Expressway Huoqiu-Anhui-Henan boundary section project. Under the announcement of Li Yu, deputy mayor and secretary of the county party committee, the project officially started, marking an important step in the construction of external transportation in Huoqiu County. The groundbreaking ceremony brought together leaders at multiple levels of provinces, cities and counties and senior executives of Anhui Construction Engineering Group to witness this historic moment. The project aims to break the long-standing traffic bottleneck in Huoqiu County, which is of far-reaching significance for improving the regional transportation network and promoting economic and social development. As an investor and builder, Anhui Construction Engineering Group promises to give full play to its own advantages, strictly control the quality, ensure the safety, environmental protection and civilized construction of the project, and strive to realize the opening to traffic as soon as possible, so as to bring real convenience and development opportunities to the people of Huoqiu County. Editor/Jiang Mingyue
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