[The wave of lithium battery capacity expansion continues] At the beginning of 2026, the production capacity of lithium iron phosphate materials and batteries will continue to expand. Fulin Precision's subsidiary plans to invest 6 billion yuan in Inner Mongolia to build a high-end lithium iron phosphate project with an annual output of 500000 tons. Wanhua Chemical has established a new energy materials company with a registered capital of 740 million yuan in Laizhou, Shandong, to serve its huge plan of producing 650000 tons of lithium iron phosphate annually. A project with an annual output of 400000 tons of lithium iron phosphate cathode material in Leshan, Sichuan has also entered the stage of environmental impact assessment and public announcement. At the same time, emerging technology routes are accelerating their implementation. The world's first 10000 ton sodium iron sulfate positive electrode material base in Meishan, Sichuan has been put into operation, the 280000 ton lithium hexafluorophosphate technological transformation project in Chizhou, Anhui has been promoted, and the 20000 ton silicon carbon negative electrode project has been signed in Inner Mongolia. In addition, Hubei Chuneng New Energy signed an order to export 6GWh energy storage products to Egypt.Editor/Gao Xue

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• 2026.04.03 16:07
• [The domestically produced largest diameter hard rock TBM is offline]
• 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

• 2026.04.03 15:53
• [China Kazakhstan's $125 million large order landed]
• 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