[CLP Engineering Guangxi Institute won the bid for the Malaysia power plant project]Recently, China Energy Construction China Power Engineering Guangxi Institute successfully won the bid for an important energy project in Sabah, Malaysia: the general contracting project of 100 MW dual-fuel peaking power plant. Located at the Kimanis Power Plant about 65km southwest of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, the project aims to expand the existing facility to add six natural gas and diesel dual-fuel internal combustion engine generator sets with a total installed capacity of 100 MW. The project, which is expected to last 18 months, is scheduled to be officially put into commercial operation in March 2026, marking another important breakthrough for Chinese energy construction companies in overseas markets. 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