[China Mobile Data Center Energy Storage Project Bid Opening]On January 22, 2026, the bidding candidates for the 7MW/42MWh energy storage demonstration project of China Mobile's Yangtze River Delta (Huainan) data center were announced. The project is tendered by Huainan Wanneng Smart Energy Co., Ltd. and opened by Anhui Antian Lixin Engineering Management Co., Ltd. The first candidate for winning the bid is Anhui Huadian Engineering Consulting and Design Co., Ltd., with a bid price of 105.8509 million yuan, equivalent to a unit price of about 2.52 yuan/Wh; the second candidate is the consortium of Guangdong Yongguang New Energy Design Consulting Co., Ltd., with a bid price of 97.5029 million yuan, equivalent to a unit price of about 2.32 yuan/Wh; the third candidate is Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co., Ltd., with a bid price of 105.3624 million yuan, equivalent to a unit price of about 2.51 yuan/Wh. China Energy Construction did not pass the qualification review.Editor/Yang Meiling
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